# Stochastic Gradient Descent with Hyperbolic-Tangent Decay on Classification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01593 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.01593/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 5 Jun 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [AdaNorm: Adaptive Gradient Norm Correction based Optimizer for CNNs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.06364/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Learning rate scheduler has been a critical issue in the deep neural network training. Several schedulers and methods have been proposed, including step decay scheduler, adaptive method, cosine scheduler and cyclical scheduler. This paper proposes a new scheduling method, named hyperbolic-tangent decay (HTD). We run experiments on several benchmarks such as: ResNet, Wide ResNet and DenseNet for CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets, LSTM for PAMAP2 dataset, ResNet on ImageNet and Fashion-MNIST datasets. In our experiments, HTD outperforms step decay and cosine scheduler in nearly all cases, while requiring less hyperparameters than step decay, and more flexible than cosine scheduler. Code is available at https://github.com/BIGBALLON/HTD.