# Why Adam work in optimizing language models: heavy-tailed data imbalance

Why Adam work in optimizing language models: heavy-tailed data imbalance at ETH AI Center, Thursday 12 November 2026, 11:30.

- Venue: ETH AI Center, Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich
- Go to page: https://forms.gle/ZEqRjAdnUuVH7fLk8

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A talk at the ETH AI Center on optimizing language models, focusing on heavy-tailed data imbalance. The title points to the Adam optimizer and why it works with such data. No further details about the speakers are given.

## Dates

- Thursday 12 November 11:30 — ETH AI Center

Written by a model, sources: [forms.gle](https://forms.gle/ZEqRjAdnUuVH7fLk8)

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