Effectiveness of Optimization Algorithms in Deep Image Classification

Adam is applied widely to train neural networks. Different kinds of Adam methods with different features pop out. Recently two new adam optimizers, AdaBelief and Padam are introduced among the community. We analyze these two adam optimizers and compare them with other conventional optimizers (Adam, SGD + Momentum) in the scenario of image classification. We evaluate the performance of these optimization algorithms on AlexNet and simplified versions of VGGNet, ResNet using the EMNIST dataset. (Benchmark algorithm is available at \hyperref[https://github.com/chuiyunjun/projectCSC413]{https://github.com/chuiyunjun/projectCSC413}).

Zhaoyang Zhu, Haozhe Sun, Chi Zhang · 2021