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On a Conjecture Regarding the Adam Optimizer
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On a Conjecture Regarding the Adam Optimizer
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Why does the Adam optimizer work so well in deep-learning applications? Adam's originators, Kingma and Ba, presented a mathematical argument that was meant to help explain its success, but Bock and colleagues have since reported that a key piece is missing from that argument $-$ an unproven lemma which we will call Bock's conjecture. Here we show that this conjecture is false, but we prove a modified version of it $-$ a generalization of a result of Reddi and colleagues $-$ which can take its place in analyses of Adam.
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