Federated learning with heavy-tailed gradient noise and communication noise: a variance-reduction based algorithm

arXiv:2606.22466 · cs.LG, math.OC · Submitted 2026-06-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, math.OC

Submitted: 2026-06-21

Updated: 2026-10-20

Comments: Lemma 1 is incorrect

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Federated Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 17 episodes
• Objective Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Federated Learning (FL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Heavy-Tailed Noise — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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