The cost of useful natural gradient updates

arXiv:2609.33499 · cs.LG, cs.IT, math.IT, math.OC · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.IT, math.IT, math.OC

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

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