Add gradient accumulation and grad clip and update readme (grad reduce after accumulate, make lr scheduling consistent) #210
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Motivation
Add gradient accumulation for training with large batch size under limited memory. Improved over previous PR: grad reduce after accumulate, make lr scheduling consistent by stepping without updating network when accumulating.
Add grad clip to configure more stable training.
Update readme
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