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Through the River: Understanding the Benefits of Schedule-Free Methods for Language Model Training

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Author

Minhak Song, Beomhan Baek, Kwangjun Ahn, Chulhee Yun

Outline

This paper highlights the limitations of existing pre-training strategies that operate on fixed computational budgets as model and dataset sizes rapidly increase, and explores more scalable alternatives. Specifically, we revisit the "Schedule-Free (SF)" method and analyze the performance of SF-AdamW, which effectively explores the "river" structure of the loss function without a decay step or additional memory. Through theoretical and empirical analysis of the dynamics of SF, we demonstrate that SF implicitly performs weighted averaging without memory overhead. Based on this analysis, we propose an improved variant of SF that enhances momentum robustness and performs better on large batch sizes.

Takeaways, Limitations

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Takeaways:
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We present SF-AdamW as a practical, scalable, and theoretically supported approach suitable for training large-scale language models without decay steps or additional memory.
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A method to improve the efficiency of model training is presented through an in-depth analysis of SF methodology.
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We propose an improved variant of SF to overcome the limitations of existing methods and improve their performance.
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Limitations:
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The paper lacks specific experimental results or information about the dataset.
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Additional analysis may be required to determine the performance of the SF method under specific conditions (e.g., specific hyperparameter settings).
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Further research is needed to determine whether the SF method always outperforms other training methods.
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