The Convergence Behavior of Adam under Heavy-Tailed Noise
arXiv:2607. 27383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We establish the first convergence guarantees for the plain vector-form \emph{Adam} optimizer under heavy-tailed stochastic noise.
arXiv:2606. 15702v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern deep learning optimization features heterogeneous parameter structures, noisy gradients, and highly nonconvex landscapes, posing significant challenges for both algorithm design and theoretical analysis.
arXiv:2607. 27383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We establish the first convergence guarantees for the plain vector-form \emph{Adam} optimizer under heavy-tailed stochastic noise.
arXiv:2506.04192v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Stochastic Frank-Wolfe is a classical optimization method for solving constrained optimization problems. On the other hand, recent optimizers...
arXiv:2606. 08783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Orthogonalized momentum updates, as used in Muon-style optimizers, have recently shown strong empirical stability in large-scale deep learning.
arXiv:2512. 02342v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The stochastic Polyak step size (SPS) has proven to be a promising choice for stochastic gradient descent (SGD), delivering competitive performance relative to state-of-the-art methods on smooth convex and non-convex optimization problems, including deep neural network training.
arXiv:2609.06064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic min-max optimization has attracted increasing attention due to its applications in modern machine learning, while existing theoretical stu...
arXiv:2603. 09923v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Exponential moving averages (EMAs) are a central component of widely used adaptive optimizers such as Adam.
arXiv:2605. 18528v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A growing lesson from neural network optimization is that optimizer design should respect how the model is parametrized.
arXiv:2608. 04607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization methods are the standard instruments for the training of deep neural networks (DNNs).
arXiv:2608. 16760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable optimization is central to neural network (NN) training, yet Adam, the default optimizer for modern LLMs, rests on a fragile foundation.
arXiv:2406. 13041v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Lower-bound analyses for nonconvex strongly-concave minimax optimization problems have shown that stochastic first-order algorithms require at least $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^{-4})$ sample complexity to find an $\varepsilon$-stationary point.
arXiv:2606. 10562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a new optimization method, the Nystr\"om-enhanced relaxed scalar auxiliary variable method (N-RSAV), which incorporates curvature information into the RSAV framework to accelerate convergence while preserving an unconditional modified energy dissipation law.
The paper introduces a unified framework for first‑order optimization algorithms applied to nonconvex unconstrained problems. It incorporates adaptively preconditioned gradients and covers popular methods such as full and diagonal AdaGrad, AdaNorm, and an adaptive variant of Muon. The framework supports heterogeneous geometries across variable groups and provides a fully stochastic global convergence analysis for all methods, with or without two types of momentum, under reasonable variance assumptions without requiring bounded stochastic gradients or small step sizes.