arXiv:2609. 12785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical convergence guarantees for stochastic gradient methods typically assume Lipschitz-smooth objectives and finite-variance gradient noise, both frequently violated in practice.
By Misbah Uz Zaman, Anirbit Mukherjee
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:2505.20817v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Gradient clipping is widely used in language-model training to control heavy-tailed gradient noise and can improve convergence guarantees ove...
By Taha El Bakkali El Kadi, Savelii Chezhegov, Aleksandr Beznosikov, Samuel Horv\'ath, Eduard Gorbunov
arXiv:2607. 27073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study online convex optimization (OCO) in non-stationary environments under heavy-tailed noise, where the stochastic gradient oracle admits only a finite $p$-th central moment for some $p \in (1, 2]$.
By Vaneet Aggarwal
The paper proves that stochastic gradient descent with gradient clipping and additive Gaussian noise (SGD‑CN) converges almost surely under smoothness and bounded noise assumptions, given standard decaying step sizes. The analysis extends to momentum variants such as the stochastic heavy ball and Nesterov's accelerated gradient, showing that careful energy constructions yield similar guarantees. These results provide stronger theoretical foundations for understanding the pathwise behaviour of clipped stochastic gradient methods in both convex and nonconvex regimes.
By Amartya Mukherjee, Jun Liu
arXiv:2609. 29458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a tightened convergence analysis of clipped gradient descent on $(L_0, L_1)$-smooth functions, with quantitative constants.
By David A. R. Robin
arXiv:2609.30499v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Uniform noise-moment bounds exclude stochastic gradients whose variability increases with the iterate. We study ordinary, single-sample stochastic grad...
By Wei Biao Wu
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...
By Tianxi Zhu, Yi Xu, Xiangyang Ji
arXiv:2606. 03769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the robustness of stochastic mirror descent (SMD) under heavy-tailed noise, focusing on whether the method retains its convergence guarantees when run with infinite-variance stochastic gradient input.
By Pierre-Louis Cauvin, Panayotis Mertikopoulos
arXiv:2607. 16384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with a constant stepsize $\alpha$, the invariant law of the iterates, centered at a minimizer, describes the behavior of the algorithm over long time horizons.
By Jingyi Zhang, Cheng Mao, Debankur Mukherjee
arXiv:2602. 05657v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The study of tail behaviour of SGD-induced processes has been attracting a lot of interest, due to offering strong guarantees with respect to individual runs of an algorithm.
By Aleksandar Armacki, Dragana Bajovi\'c, Du\v{s}an Jakoveti\'c, Soummya Kar, Ali H. Sayed
arXiv:2607. 27073v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study online convex optimization with stochastic gradient noise whose conditional $p$-th central moment is bounded by $\sigma^p$, for an unknown $p\in(1,2]$.
By Vaneet Aggarwal