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  1. This paper unifies commonly used accelerated stochastic gradient methods (Polyak’s Heavy Ball, Nesterov’s Accelerated Gradient and Adaptive Moment Estimation (Adam)) as specific cases of a general lowpass regularized learning framework, the Automatic Stochastic Gradient Method (AutoSGM). For AutoSGM, we derive an optimal iteration-dependent learning rate function and realize an approximation. Adam is also an approximation of this optimal approach that replaces the iteration-dependent learning-rate with a constant. Empirical results on deep neural networks comparing the learning behavior of AutoSGM equipped with this iteration-dependent learning-rate algorithm demonstrate fast learning behavior, robustness to the initial choice of the learning rate, and can tune an initial constant learning-rate in applications where a good constant learning rate approximation is unknown. 
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