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What is the role of bias correction in Adam optimizer?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Bias correction adjusts moment estimates in Adam during early training steps.

Deep explanation

Adam maintains exponential moving averages of gradients. At initialization, these estimates are biased toward zero. Bias correction compensates by scaling estimates using (1 - beta^t) factors.

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