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PublishedJuly 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Critical Damping as a Momentum Schedule: Multi-Seed Validation, a Hybrid Recipe, and an Exhaustive Negative Result on Surgical Layer Selection
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arXiv:2603.28921v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The critical damping condition of the damped harmonic oscillator model of SGD with momentum (Qian, 1999) yields a momentum schedule with no tuned hyperparameters: mu(t) = 1 - 2*sqrt(alpha(t)). Across five seeds on ResNet-18/CIFAR-10 (200-epoc
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