Stepsize Hedging: an Alternative Mechanism for Accelerating Gradient Descent

Mathematics > Optimization and Control [Submitted on 29 May 2026 (v1), last revised 2 Jun 2026 (this version, v2)] Title:Stepsize Hedging: an Alternative Mechanism for Accelerating Gradient Descent View PDFAbstract:Can gradient descent be accelerated by just choosing better stepsizes? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. This short expository article provides an accessible introduction to this phenomenon of stepsize hedging. Submission history From: Jason Altschuler [view email][v1] Fri, 29 May 2026 14:51:30 UTC (236 KB) [v2] Tue, 2 Jun 2026 14:12:25 UTC (245 KB) Current browse context: math.OC References & Citations Loading... Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Recommenders and Search Tools Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.