Thank you so much for your comprehensive answer, this helps a lot.
If I understand nshepperd's code correctly, it uses a constant and small learning rate. Do you know if this works better than the learning rate schedule that is usually used for Transformer models (https://www.tensorflow.org/alpha/tutorials/text/transformer_...)?
If I understand nshepperd's code correctly, it uses a constant and small learning rate. Do you know if this works better than the learning rate schedule that is usually used for Transformer models (https://www.tensorflow.org/alpha/tutorials/text/transformer_...)?