My Gradient Clipping Was Never Clipping. It Was Secretly Multiplying My Weight Decay
Yesterday's experiment ended with a clean verdict: LR warmup is insurance — free at the tuned learning rate, a full payout at an overheated one. Gradient clipping has the exact same folklore job description. It's the other knob people ship "for stability," the one every training-loop template inclu…
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- 2026-11-04 23:45 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
My Gradient Clipping Was Never Clipping. It Was Secretly Multiplying My Weight Decay