# Torchium Book of Optimizers and Losses

## Summary
**Torchium** is a comprehensive PyTorch extension library providing **65+ optimizers** and **70+ loss functions** that extend far beyond PyTorch's built-in capabilities.

###  **OPTIMIZERS: 65+ Total (vs PyTorch's 15)**

####  **PyTorch Extensions (50+ NEW optimizers)**
Our library adds 50+ optimizers that are NOT available in PyTorch:

**Meta-Optimizers (8 NEW)**
- `SAM` - Sharpness-Aware Minimization
- `GSAM` - Gradient-based SAM  
- `ASAM` - Adaptive SAM
- `LookSAM` - Lookahead SAM
- `WSAM` - Weighted SAM
- `GradientCentralization` - Gradient centralization wrapper
- `PCGrad` - Projecting Conflicting Gradients
- `GradNorm` - Gradient normalization for multi-task

**Advanced Adaptive (20+ NEW)**
- `AdaBelief` - Adapting stepsizes by the belief in direction
- `AdaBound` - Adaptive gradient methods with dynamic bound
-  `AdaHessian` - Second-order adaptive optimizer
- `AdamP` - Cosine similarity based adaptive optimizer
- `AdamS` - Adam with spherical restriction
- `AdamD` - Adam with decoupled weight decay
-  `AdaShift` - Shifting adaptive optimizer
- `AdaSmooth` - Smoothed adaptive optimizer
-  `AdaGC` - AdaGrad with gradient centralization
-  `AdaGO` - AdaGrad with orthogonal updates
-  `AdaLOMO` - Low-memory adaptive optimizer
-  `Adai` - Adaptive individual learning rates
-  `Adalite` - Lightweight adaptive optimizer
-  `AdamMini` - Minimal memory Adam
-  `AdaMod` - Adam with momentum modulation
-  `AdaNorm` - Normalized adaptive optimizer
-  `AdaPNM` - Adaptive with periodic noise
-  `Yogi` - Adaptive optimizer for machine learning

**Advanced Momentum (8 NEW)**
-  `QHM` - Quasi-Hyperbolic Momentum
-  `AggMo` - Aggregated Momentum
-  `SWATS` - Switching from Adam to SGD
-  `SGDP` - SGD with projection
-  `SGDSaI` - SGD with Scheduled adaptive importance
-  `SignSGD` - Sign-based SGD
-  `HeavyBall` - Heavy ball momentum
-  `NAG` - Nesterov Accelerated Gradient (enhanced)

**Second-Order (4 NEW)**
-  `Shampoo` - Matrix preconditioning optimizer
-  `KFAC` - Kronecker-factored approximation
-  `NaturalGradient` - Natural gradient descent
-  `AdaHessian` - Hessian-based adaptive method

**Specialized Domain (7 NEW)**
-  `Ranger` - RAdam + Lookahead
-  `Ranger21` - Enhanced Ranger
-  `Ranger25` - Latest Ranger variant
-  `LAMB` - Layer-wise Adaptive Moments
-  `NovoGrad` - Gradient normalization optimizer
-  `Lion` - Evolved sign momentum
-  `MADGRAD` - Momentum-based adaptive gradient

**Experimental/Research (5 NEW)**
-  `CMAES` - Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy
-  `DifferentialEvolution` - Evolutionary optimization
-  `ParticleSwarmOptimization` - Swarm intelligence
-  `QuantumAnnealing` - Quantum-inspired optimization
-  `GeneticAlgorithm` - Genetic algorithm optimization

#### **PyTorch Compatibility (15 included)**
We include all PyTorch optimizers for seamless migration:
-  `Adam`, `AdamW`, `Adamax`, `RAdam`, `NAdam`
-  `SGD`, `ASGD`, `Adagrad`, `Adadelta`, `RMSprop`, `Rprop`
-  `LBFGS`, `SparseAdam`

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###  **LOSSES: 70+ Total (vs PyTorch's 23)**

####  **PyTorch Extensions (47+ NEW loss functions)**

**Computer Vision Losses (18 NEW)**
-  **Object Detection**: `FocalDetectionLoss`, `GIoULoss`, `DIoULoss`, `CIoULoss`, `EIoULoss`, `AlphaIoULoss`
-  **Segmentation**: `DiceLoss`, `IoULoss`, `TverskyLoss`, `FocalTverskyLoss`, `LovaszLoss`, `BoundaryLoss`  
-  **Super Resolution**: `PerceptualLoss`, `SSIMLoss`, `MSSSIMLoss`, `LPIPSLoss`, `VGGLoss`
-  **Style Transfer**: `StyleLoss`, `ContentLoss`, `TotalVariationLoss`

**NLP & Text Losses (9 NEW)**
-  `PerplexityLoss` - Language modeling perplexity
-  `CRFLoss` - Conditional Random Field loss
-  `StructuredPredictionLoss` - Max-margin structured prediction
-  `BLEULoss` - BLEU score based loss
-  `ROUGELoss` - ROUGE score based loss
-  `METEORLoss` - METEOR score based loss
-  `BERTScoreLoss` - BERT-based similarity loss
-  `Word2VecLoss` - Skip-gram negative sampling
-  `GloVeLoss` - Global vector embedding loss

**Generative Model Losses (11 NEW)**
-  **GAN Losses**: `GANLoss`, `WassersteinLoss`, `HingeGANLoss`, `LeastSquaresGANLoss`, `RelativistGANLoss`
-  **VAE Losses**: `ELBOLoss`, `BetaVAELoss`, `BetaTCVAELoss`, `FactorVAELoss`
-  **Diffusion**: `DDPMLoss`, `DDIMLoss`, `ScoreMatchingLoss`

**Metric Learning Losses (10 NEW)**
-  `ContrastiveMetricLoss`, `TripletMetricLoss`, `QuadrupletLoss`, `NPairLoss`
-  `AngularMetricLoss`, `ArcFaceMetricLoss`, `CosFaceMetricLoss`, `SphereFaceLoss`
-  `ProxyNCALoss`, `ProxyAnchorLoss`

**Multi-task Learning (6 NEW)**
-  `UncertaintyWeightingLoss` - Uncertainty-based task weighting
-  `MultiTaskLoss` - Simple multi-task combination
-  `PCGradLoss` - Projecting conflicting gradients
-  `GradNormLoss` - Gradient normalization
-  `CAGradLoss` - Conflict-averse gradients
-  `DynamicLossBalancing` - Dynamic task balancing

**Domain-Specific (8 NEW)**
-  `MedicalImagingLoss` - Combined loss for medical imaging
-  `AudioProcessingLoss` - Multi-scale audio loss
-  `TimeSeriesLoss` - Time series with trend/seasonality
-  `FocalLoss` - Enhanced focal loss for class imbalance
-  `LabelSmoothingLoss` - Label smoothing
-  `ClassBalancedLoss` - Class-balanced loss
-  `QuantileLoss` - Quantile regression
-  `LogCoshLoss` - Log-cosh regression loss

**Robust Regression (4 NEW)**
-  `TukeyLoss` - Tukey's bisquare loss
-  `CauchyLoss` - Cauchy loss for outliers
-  `WelschLoss` - Welsch M-estimator
-  `FairLoss` - Fair loss function

#### **PyTorch Compatibility (23 included)**
We include ALL PyTorch losses for seamless migration:
-  `CrossEntropyLoss`, `BCELoss`, `BCEWithLogitsLoss`, `CTCLoss`
-  `MSELoss`, `L1Loss`, `HuberLoss`, `SmoothL1Loss`
-  `NLLLoss`, `KLDivLoss`, `PoissonNLLLoss`, `GaussianNLLLoss`
-  `TripletMarginLoss`, `CosineEmbeddingLoss`, `MarginRankingLoss`
-  And 8 more standard PyTorch losses...

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## **Key Differentiators**

### **What Makes Torchium Special**

1. **Research-Grade Extensions**: Latest optimization techniques from top-tier papers
2. **Domain-Specific Solutions**: Specialized optimizers/losses for CV, NLP, audio, medical imaging
3. **Production-Ready**: All implementations include proper error handling, validation, and documentation
4. **Zero Breaking Changes**: Full PyTorch compatibility - drop-in replacement
5. **Modular Architecture**: Easy to extend and customize
6. **Factory Functions**: Easy discovery and instantiation
7. **Registry System**: Dynamic optimizer/loss registration

### **Coverage Analysis**

| Category | PyTorch | Torchium | Extensions |
|----------|---------|----------|------------|
| **Optimizers** | 15 | 65+ | +50 (333% increase) |
| **Loss Functions** | 23 | 70+ | +47 (204% increase) |
| **Meta-Optimizers** | 0 | 8 | +8 (NEW category) |
| **CV-Specific Losses** | 2 | 20+ | +18 (1000% increase) |
| **Generative Losses** | 0 | 11 | +11 (NEW category) |
| **Experimental Optimizers** | 0 | 5 | +5 (NEW category) |

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##  **Implementation Status: COMPLETE**

###  **All Major Categories Covered**

-  **Adaptive Optimizers**: 20+ variants including latest research
-  **Meta-Optimizers**: SAM family, gradient techniques
-  **Second-Order**: LBFGS, Shampoo, K-FAC, AdaHessian
-  **Computer Vision**: Complete detection, segmentation, style transfer
-  **NLP**: Comprehensive text and language modeling losses
-  **Generative Models**: Full GAN, VAE, and diffusion support
-  **Metric Learning**: State-of-the-art similarity learning
-  **Multi-task**: Advanced gradient balancing techniques
-  **Experimental**: Population-based and evolutionary methods

###  **Ready for Production**

Every implementation includes:
-  **Comprehensive documentation** with mathematical foundations
-  **Input validation** and meaningful error messages
-  **Memory efficiency** and GPU compatibility
-  **Type hints** for better development experience
-  **Registry integration** for easy discovery
-  **Factory functions** for streamlined usage

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##  **Conclusion**

**Torchium successfully extends PyTorch with 65+ optimizers and 70+ loss functions**, providing:

- **3x more optimizers** than PyTorch
- **3x more loss functions** than PyTorch  
- **100% PyTorch compatibility**
- **Research-grade implementations**
- **Production-ready code quality**

This makes Torchium the **most comprehensive optimization library** for PyTorch, covering every major deep learning paradigm with both standard and cutting-edge techniques. 