2025/08/06 by Gaud, Nirmal, Mouli, Surej, Katiyar, Preeti +1 · 1 citation
#Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2508.04293
This study proposes NIRMAL (Novel Integrated Robust Multi-Adaptation Learning), a novel optimization algorithm that combines multiple strategies inspired by the movements of the chess piece. These strategies include gradient descent, momentum, stochastic perturbations, adaptive learning rates, and non-linear transformations. We carefully evaluated NIRMAL against two widely used and successful optimizers, Adam and SGD with Momentum, on four benchmark image classification datasets: MNIST, FashionMNIST, CIFAR-10, and CIFAR-100. The custom convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is applied on each dataset. The experimental results show that NIRMAL achieves competitive performance, particularly on the more challenging CIFAR-100 dataset, where it achieved a test accuracy of 45.32%and a weighted F1-score of 0.4328. This performance surpasses Adam (41.79% accuracy, 0.3964 F1-score) and closely matches SGD with Momentum (46.97% accuracy, 0.4531 F1-score). Also, NIRMAL exhibits robust convergence and strong generalization capabilities, especially on complex datasets, as evidenced by stable training results in loss and accuracy curves. These findings underscore NIRMAL's significant ability as a versatile and effective optimizer for various deep learning tasks.