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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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