Stability and Generalization of Stochastic Nonconvex Optimization under Heavy-Tailed Noise: From Gradient Norm to Goldstein Stationarity

arXiv:2601.19730 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-01-27 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-01-27

Updated: 2026-10-03

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