CosineAnnealingLR
Sets the learning rate according to the cosine annealing schedule.
Cosine AnnealingLR is a scheduling technique that starts off with a very large learning rate and then aggressively decreases it to a value near 0, before again increasing the learning rate.
This variation of the learning rate happens according to the cosine annealing schedule. Mathematically, if the learning rate is given as,
$\eta_t=\eta_{min}+\frac{1}{2}(\eta_{max}-\eta_{min}) \left (1+cos \left( \frac{T_{cur}}{T_{max}} \pi \right) \right)$
Where
$\eta_t$
is the current learning rate,
$\eta_{max}$
and
$\eta_{min}$
are the maximum and the minimum learning rates respectively,
$T_{cur}$
is the current number of accumulated epochs.
From the above equation, we can see that once
$T_{cur}=T_{max}$
, the learning rate becomes
$\eta_{min}$
.

## T Max

T Max is the maximum number of iterations that is used in the aforementioned function.
Learning rate with different T max. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03983v5
Note that the
$T_0$
in the given figure is
$T_{max}$
.

## Eta Min

It is the minimum achievable learning rate with the given cosine annealing schedule. In the given figure, we can see that the learning rate goes to 0 and then increases aggressively. Hence, the eta min is 0.

## Code Implementation

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import torch
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scheduler=torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(optimizer, T_max=1000, eta_min=0, last_epoch=-1, verbose=False)
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for epoch in range(20):
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for input, target in dataset:
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