Study: Standard SGD Can Replace AdamW in LLM RL Training

New research challenges the assumption that AdamW is required for large-scale Transformer training, showing standard SGD works equally well during RL with verifiable rewards while avoiding AdamW's heavy memory footprint.

2026-09-14 ~ 2026-09-15 · 2 related posts

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