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This PR improves the documentation and comments related to the learning rate
scheduler (StepLR) in the transfer_learning_tutorial.py script.

Changes made:

  • Added clarification about the recommended order: optimizer.step() followed by scheduler.step().
  • Explained why StepLR is stepped once per epoch in this tutorial.
  • Improved clarity of the backward/optimizer comment inside the training loop.
  • Updated comments to align with current PyTorch best practices.

No functional changes were made. This is a documentation only improvement.

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  • The issue being addressed is documentation clarity (no existing issue number)
  • Only one change area is addressed in this PR
  • No unnecessary changes are included
  • PR follows PyTorch Tutorials contribution guidelines

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@sammy-1904 sammy-1904 force-pushed the improve-scheduler-comment branch from 6b1caea to af68465 Compare December 2, 2025 13:56
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