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Polyak Averaging

introduced 1991 3 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

Polyak Averaging is an optimization technique that sets final parameters to an average of (recent) parameters visited in the optimization trajectory. Specifically if in t iterations we have parameters θ₁, θ₂, …, θₜ, then Polyak Averaging suggests setting

θₜ =1/t∑ᵢθᵢ

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

3 shown of 3, newest first. Repository counts are the archive's code-links table. A Syntology line states what Syntology ran from that paper's harvested code; it is per sample and not a correctness claim.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

18 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Image Classification2
Depth Estimation1
Depth Prediction1
GPU1
General Classification1
Image Segmentation1
Knowledge Distillation1
Language Modelling1
Monocular Depth Estimation1
Neural Architecture Search1
Object Detection1
Object Recognition1
Pose Estimation1
Reinforcement Learning1
Segmentation1
Semantic Segmentation1
image-classification1
valid1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Polyak Averaging: 2014 to 2025, peak 1 1 0 2014: 1 paper 2014 2015: 0 papers 2015 2016: 0 papers 2016 2017: 0 papers 2017 2018: 1 paper 2018 2019: 0 papers 2019 2020: 0 papers 2020 2021: 0 papers 2021 2022: 0 papers 2022 2023: 0 papers 2023 2024: 0 papers 2024 2025: 1 paper 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (3 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

Components: the archive holds no method-to-method composition, so PwC's Components table cannot be rebuilt; the Papers list carries no Results column for the same reason (the archive does not join its leaderboard rows to method tags).

Categories archive 2025-07-28

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