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## Introduction

Adadelta is similar to Adagrad in that it works well with sparse data (data that has many 0 values). Both methods are also resistant to exploding gradients (gradients that get too large and cause numerical instability).

Adadelta is a Learning algorithm for training neural networks. It is based on the intuition that the gradient of a loss function can be used to update weights in such a way as to minimize the value of the loss function. Adadelta has been shown to be more effective than other Learning algorithms, such as Adagrad and RMSProp, in terms of both training time and accuracy.

Adadelta is an extension of Adagrad that seeks to eliminate its aggressive, monotonically decreasing learning rate. Instead of each parameter having its own learning rate, it maintains a decaying average of the squared gradients similar to RMSProp.

Similarly to RMSProp, Adadelta uses moving averages of both the gradients and the second moments of the gradients to scale the learning rate. However, unlike RMSProp, which uses the last gradient and second moment estimate, Adadelta uses all historical estimates when computing the current learning rate [1].

The authors proposed two methods for initializing the parameters $\epsilon$ and $\rho$. The first is to initialize both parameters to 0.9 and let them decay by 0.95 every 1000 training iterations [1]. The other is to initialize $\epsilon$ to a very small value such as $10^{-6}$ and $\rho$ according to

\begin{equation*} \rho = \begin{cases} 0.9 & \text{if } T \leqslant 5 \\ 1 – \frac{1}{2T} & \text{if } 5

One advantage of Adadelta over other optimizers is that it does not require a manually set learning rate – learning rates are automatically adjusted as training progresses.

Another advantage of Adadelta vs. other optimizers is that it tends to converge more quickly and sometimes even reaches a higher final accuracy than other optimizers (although not always – it largely depends on the problem and the model being optimizing).

Adadelta has a couple of disadvantages. Firstly, it requires more memory than other optimizers because it needs to store all the squared gradients in memory. Secondly, Adadelta is not well suited for mini-batch training because the squared gradients are calculated using the entire dataset instead of just the mini-batch. Lastly, Adadelta does not work well with sparse data (data that has many zeros).

Adadelta is a parameter update rule that is used in training neural networks. It was proposed by Matthew Zeiler in 2012.

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## Conclusion

This concludes our tutorial on Adadelta – a Pytorch implementation. We have seen how to implement Adadelta from scratch and how to use it in practice. We have also looked at some of the important parameters that need to be tuned for Adadelta. Thank you for reading!