arXiv:2603. 10485v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we study the convergence properties of the Dual Space Preconditioned Gradient Descent, encompassing optimizers such as Normalized Gradient Descent and Gradient Clipping.
By Reza Ghane, Danil Akhtiamov, Babak Hassibi
arXiv:2605. 18694v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many tasks in modern machine learning are observed to involve heavy-tailed gradient noise during the optimization process.
By Zijian Liu
arXiv:2606. 01764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We revisit the convergence guarantees of the Extragradient (EG) method for unconstrained biaffine min-max optimization.
By Yue Wu, Weiqiang Zheng, Yang Cai, Haipeng Luo
arXiv:2603. 06009v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An agent's performance stagnating at a suboptimal level is a common problem in deep on-policy RL.
By Michael Beukman, Khimya Khetarpal, Zeyu Zheng, Will Dabney, Jakob Foerster, Michael Dennis, Clare Lyle
arXiv:2607. 09097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study stochastic fixed-point equations $\mathbf{T}(\mathbf{x}) = \mathbf{x}$ over normed spaces $(\mathcal{E}, \|\cdot\|)$, where the operator $\mathbf{T}$ is nonexpansive or contractive and is accessed only through unbiased stochastic evaluations with bounded second central moment.
By Jelena Diakonikolas
arXiv:2409. 19279v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continuous-time models can reveal accelerated structures in distributed optimization, but their rates need not survive direct discretization.
By Kushal Chakrabarti, Mayank Baranwal
arXiv:2606. 32005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic Gradient Descent ($\textsf{SGD}$) is one of the most classical optimization algorithms with favorable theoretical guarantees, yet the practical implementation of $\textsf{SGD}$ differs subtly from its well-known form and is often referred to as Shuffling Stochastic Gradient Descent ($\textsf{Shuffling SGD}$).
By Zijian Liu
A new class of asynchronous adaptive first-order optimization methods is introduced, comprising asynchronous variants of several popular algorithms. Versions of these methods using momentum and/or inexact normalization are also considered.
arXiv:2608. 03001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unit excitation (UE) is a common assumption in stochastic saddle avoidance: the stochastic error must have a uniformly positive component along every direction, in expectation.
By Junwen Qiu, Bohao Ma, Andre Milzarek, Junyu Zhang
arXiv:2608. 05460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work introduces a proximal stochastic subgradient method for minimizing the sum of an expected cost, whose integrand is potentially nonsmooth and nonconvex, and a lower semicontinuous, prox-bounded function.
By Felipe Atenas, Alejandro Jofr\'e, Pedro P\'erez-Aros, David Torregrosa-Bel\'en
arXiv:2606. 01787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A new class of asynchronous adaptive first-order optimization methods is introduced, comprising asynchronous variants of several popular algorithms.
By Serge Gratton, Philippe L. Toint
arXiv:2602. 20376v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of maximizing a complex-valued quadratic form over the $K^{\text{th}}$ roots of unity.
By Ria Stevens, Fangshuo Liao, Barbara Su, Thanasis Hadjidimoulas, Jianqiang Li, Anastasios Kyrillidis