# The Geometry of Spectral Gradient Descent: Layerwise Criteria for SignSGD vs SpecSGD

Canonical HTML: https://hiroki11x.github.io/publications/geometry-of-spectral-gradient-descent/

- Authors: Hiroki Naganuma, Laura Gomezjurado Gonzalez, Mahdi Ghaznavi, Ioannis Mitliagkas
- Venue: ICLR 2026 Workshop on Geometry-grounded Representation Learning and Generative Modeling (ICLR 2026 Workshop)
- Date: 2026-02
- Research areas: [Optimization for Machine Learning](https://hiroki11x.github.io/research/#optimization)

## Abstract

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## Primary research links

- [OpenReview](https://openreview.net/forum?id=lDs4vkSX7J)