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AdamC

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.02285

To prevent the gradient norm from blowing up during the end of training, the paper introduces AdamC — it has a corrected weight decay where the weight decay is tied to the square of the learning rate:

$$\frac{\gamma_t^2}{\gamma_{\max}} \lambda$$

This is also now used in Thinky's model Inkling — https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/