LR Finder plot with only 1 number on X axis

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should i just use a max_lr of 1e-06? or a slice from 1e-07 to 1e-06??

i’m confused. from fresh i did fit_one_cycle(10) and it did this so i don’t understand the funky plot:

epoch train_loss valid_loss error_rate time
0 1.209431 0.400632 0.096774 00:22
1 0.805811 0.469109 0.225806 00:04
2 0.644564 0.257253 0.096774 00:05
3 0.558977 0.447386 0.096774 00:05
4 0.473481 0.529084 0.064516 00:05
5 0.385601 0.587621 0.064516 00:04
6 0.343027 0.578265 0.064516 00:05
7 0.306908 0.587580 0.064516 00:04
8 0.280365 0.594525 0.064516 00:04
9 0.248135 0.576851 0.064516 00:04

i’m probably doing something stupid but i can’t see what.

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i’ve answered my own question about what stupid thing i was doing (too many epochs straight out of the door) but i’m leaving this up because that plot still looks very odd to me.

is that broken or a symptom of something i should understand?