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Weak-$L^α$ Noise, Strong Guarantees: Gradient Clipping under Affine Heavy Tails

Alyona Nekrasova, Makar Sidorov, Savelii Chezhegov, Alexander Gasnikov, Margarita Preobrazhenskaia, Igor Preobrazhensky, Eduard Gorbunov · 2026 · arXiv

DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.28107 · open-access PDF

Abstract

Gradient clipping is a key tool for obtaining high-probability convergence guarantees for stochastic first-order methods under heavy-tailed noise. Existing analyses typically assume a bounded central moment of order $α\in(1,2]$, which excludes distributions with tails of order $u^{-α}$ at the critical exponent. In this paper, we consider smooth convex optimization under affine heavy-tailed noise, whose scale may grow with the gradient norm. We derive high-probability convergence guarantees for clipped SGD (Clip-SGD) and its accelerated variant Clip-SSTM under a weak-$L^α$ tail condition, which

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