Support bias correction in Adam and AdamW optimizers (#1640)

python/mlx/optimizers/optimizers.py

@@ -395,10 +395,7 @@ class AdaDelta(Optimizer):
 
 
 class Adam(Optimizer):
-    r"""The Adam optimizer [1].
-
-    Our Adam implementation follows the original paper and omits the bias
-    correction in the first and second moment estimates. In detail,
+    r"""The Adam optimizer [1]. In detail,
 
     [1]: Kingma, D.P. and Ba, J., 2015. Adam: A method for stochastic
     optimization. ICLR 2015.
@@ -416,6 +413,8 @@ class Adam(Optimizer):
           gradient and its square. Default: ``(0.9, 0.999)``
         eps (float, optional): The term :math:`\epsilon` added to the
           denominator to improve numerical stability. Default: ``1e-8``
+        bias_correction (bool, optional): If set to ``True``, bias correction
+          is applied. Default: ``False``
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -423,12 +422,14 @@ class Adam(Optimizer):
         learning_rate: Union[float, Callable[[mx.array], mx.array]],
         betas: List[float] = [0.9, 0.999],
         eps: float = 1e-8,
+        bias_correction: bool = False,
     ):
         super().__init__()
 
         self._maybe_schedule("learning_rate", learning_rate)
         self.betas = betas
         self.eps = eps
+        self.bias_correction = bias_correction
 
     def init_single(self, parameter: mx.array, state: dict):
         """Initialize optimizer state"""
@@ -441,6 +442,8 @@ class Adam(Optimizer):
         lr = self.learning_rate.astype(gradient.dtype)
         b1, b2 = self.betas
         eps = self.eps
+        bias_correction = self.bias_correction
+        step = self.step
 
         m = state["m"]
         v = state["v"]
@@ -449,15 +452,17 @@ class Adam(Optimizer):
         state["m"] = m
         state["v"] = v
 
+        if bias_correction:
+            numerator = lr / (1 - b1**step) * m
+            denominator = mx.sqrt(v) / mx.sqrt(1 - b2**step) + eps
+            return parameter - numerator / denominator
+        else:
             return parameter - lr * m / (mx.sqrt(v) + eps)
 
 
 class AdamW(Adam):
-    r"""The AdamW optimizer [1].
-
-    Following the above convention, in contrast with [1], we do not use bias
-    correction in the first and second moments for AdamW. We update the weights
-    with a weight_decay (:math:`\lambda`) value:
+    r"""The AdamW optimizer [1]. We update the weights with a weight_decay
+    (:math:`\lambda`) value:
 
     [1]: Loshchilov, I. and Hutter, F., 2019. Decoupled weight decay
     regularization. ICLR 2019.
@@ -477,6 +482,8 @@ class AdamW(Adam):
           denominator to improve numerical stability. Default: ``1e-8``
         weight_decay (float, optional): The weight decay :math:`\lambda`.
           Default: ``0``.
+        bias_correction (bool, optional): If set to ``True``, bias correction
+          is applied. Default: ``False``
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -485,8 +492,14 @@ class AdamW(Adam):
         betas: List[float] = [0.9, 0.999],
         eps: float = 1e-8,
         weight_decay: float = 0.01,
+        bias_correction: bool = False,
     ):
-        super().__init__(learning_rate=learning_rate, betas=betas, eps=eps)
+        super().__init__(
+            learning_rate=learning_rate,
+            betas=betas,
+            eps=eps,
+            bias_correction=bias_correction,
+        )
         self.weight_decay = weight_decay
 
     def apply_single(self, gradient: mx.array, parameter: mx.array, state: dict):

python/tests/test_optimizers.py

@@ -10,8 +10,17 @@ import mlx.nn as nn
 import mlx.optimizers as opt
 import mlx.utils
 import mlx_tests
+import numpy as np
 from mlx.utils import tree_flatten, tree_map, tree_unflatten
 
+try:
+    import torch
+    import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+    has_torch = True
+except ImportError as e:
+    has_torch = False
+
 
 def get_all_optimizers():
     classes = dict()
@@ -186,6 +195,51 @@ class TestOptimizers(mlx_tests.MLXTestCase):
                 )
             )
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(not has_torch, "requires Torch")
+    def test_adamw_matches_pytorch(self):
+        mx.random.seed(0)
+        np.random.seed(0)
+
+        model = nn.Linear(3, 1)
+        init_weight = np.array(model.weight.tolist())
+        init_bias = np.array(model.bias.tolist())
+
+        def loss_fn(model, x, y):
+            pred = model(x)
+            return nn.losses.mse_loss(pred, y)
+
+        x = np.random.rand(3, 3)
+        y = np.random.rand(3, 1)
+
+        optimizer = opt.AdamW(learning_rate=3e-4, bias_correction=True)
+        loss_and_grad_fn = nn.value_and_grad(model, loss_fn)
+        loss, grads = loss_and_grad_fn(model, mx.array(x), mx.array(y))
+        optimizer.update(model, grads)
+
+        # Equivalent torch code
+        torch_model = torch.nn.Linear(3, 1)
+
+        # copy over the parameters
+        torch_model.weight.data = torch.tensor(init_weight, dtype=torch.float32)
+        torch_model.bias.data = torch.tensor(init_bias, dtype=torch.float32)
+
+        torch_optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(torch_model.parameters(), lr=3e-4)
+        torch_optimizer.zero_grad()
+        pred = torch_model(torch.tensor(x, dtype=torch.float32))
+        loss = torch.nn.MSELoss()(pred, torch.tensor(y, dtype=torch.float32))
+        loss.backward()
+        torch_optimizer.step()
+
+        for name, param in torch_model.named_parameters():
+            mlx_grad = np.array(grads[name])
+            torch_grad = param.grad.detach().numpy()
+            self.assertTrue(np.allclose(torch_grad, mlx_grad))
+
+        for name, param in torch_model.named_parameters():
+            mlx_param = np.array(model[name])
+            torch_param = param.data.detach().numpy()
+            self.assertTrue(np.allclose(torch_param, mlx_param))
+
     def test_lion(self):
         params = {
             "first": [mx.zeros((10,)), mx.zeros((1,))],