Chapter 7: The Training Loop and Adam Optimiser

📰 Dev.to · Gary Jackson

Learn to assemble a full training loop with Adam optimizer for efficient model training

intermediate Published 26 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Build a forward pass function to compute model outputs
  2. Run a loss function to calculate the difference between predicted and actual outputs
  3. Apply the backward pass to compute gradients of the loss with respect to model parameters
  4. Configure the Adam optimizer with momentum, adaptive scaling, and learning rate decay
  5. Test the training loop with a sample dataset to ensure correct implementation
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Machine learning engineers and data scientists can benefit from this knowledge to improve model training efficiency and accuracy

Key Insight

💡 The Adam optimizer with momentum, adaptive scaling, and learning rate decay can significantly improve model training efficiency and accuracy

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Assemble a full training loop: forward, loss, backward, and Adam parameter updates with momentum, adaptive scaling, and learning rate decay.
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