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2026-08-22
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Training & Alignment
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Learning Rate Schedules — Why Warmup and Why Cosine
The learning rate is not a fixed number — it is a curve you design across the whole run. Why we deliberately start slow (warmup), why we come down along a cosine, and what else has to move when batch size changes. Equations, live figures, PyTorch code, and the mistakes that actually break runs.