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Fix centered RMSprop: clamp variance, move eps outside sqrt - #73
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Summary
Fixes #12 — centered RMSprop can take sqrt of a negative value.
E[g^2] - E[g]^2with large gradients (~1e4).sqrt(var) + epsinstead ofsqrt(var + eps)) to match PyTorch and avoid amplifying steps 10000x when variance is near zero.Test plan
cargo test— all 42 unit tests, integration tests, and doc-tests passcentered_large_gradients_no_nantest feeds 1e4 gradients and asserts no NaNcentered_variant_stabilises_on_constant_gradientsverifies convergence