Learning rate

How far each optimiser step moves the parameters. The single hyperparameter most likely to be the reason a run failed.

What people get wrong

Too high shows up as a loss that spikes or goes to NaN; too low as a loss that falls smoothly but far too slowly. Both look like "training is broken" and need opposite fixes.

A definition is not an understanding. This is taught properly in Tuning, in order of what matters, part of Hyperparameter tuning.

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