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How do learning rate schedulers work in PyTorch?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Schedulers adjust learning rate during training to improve convergence.
Deep explanation
They modify optimizer learning rate based on epoch or performance metrics, helping escape local minima and stabilize training.
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