What is the point of learning rate decay neural network optimization?

In Adam optimizer, we are anyways reducing the amount by which updates happen at each iteration. Why bother with learning rate decay?

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2026-09-20 12:09 · r/learnmachinelearning
What is the point of learning rate decay neural network optimization?

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