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Why do all NN optimizers have weird names? [d]

SOAP, Shampoo, FOAM. Muon is a bit better but it has the same name as the particle from physics. Whenever I want to search about these tones of completely irrelevant results come up because of their non-unqiue names. Adam would have the same problem if it wasn't so famous. This has been giving me a…

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  1. 2026-11-01 16:51 · r/MachineLearning
    Why do all NN optimizers have weird names? [d]

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