Bringing Order to Asynchronous SGD: Towards Optimality under Data-Dependent Delays with Momentum

arXiv:2605.02043 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-03 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-03

Updated: 2026-10-04

Terminology

• Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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• A Survey of Large Language Models

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