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Precise Convergence Speed of Clipped SGD

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 24, 2026 · UTC

We present a tightened convergence analysis of clipped gradient descent on $(L_0, L_1)$-smooth functions, with quantitative constants. Building on the ideas of Koloskova et al (2023), we refactor several case disjunctions to reveal the central role of a control of the bias derived from fundamental properties of $\ell_2$-projection, simplifying proofs. We also extend the domain of validity from $η\leq 1 / (9 β)$ to $η< 1 /β$ where $β= L_0 + c L_1$ for clipping constant $c$, which matches the more traditional analysis of smooth functions. We strengthen the convergence criterion from $\left( \min

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