Can SGD Handle Heavy-Tailed Noise?

arXiv:2508.04860 · math.OC, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-08-06 · Read on arXiv

math.OC, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-08-06

Updated: 2026-10-02

Terminology

• Sample Complexity — 2× in this paper · explained in 17 episodes
• Convergence Guarantees — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Stochastic Gradient Descent — 1× in this paper
• Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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