Comprehensive sweep finds the best optimizer changes with batch size

aaron_defazio · x · 2026-10-10

A comprehensive sweep by @xingyudang's team shows the answer to "which optimizer is best" depends on batch size: the optimal BSZ scaling rule varies with settings and cannot be derived from early theories like SDE approximations or convex bounds.

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