@article{analysisofanidealizedstochasticpolyak, title = {Analysis of an Idealized Stochastic Polyak Method and its Application to Black-Box Model Distillation}, author = {Robert M. Gower and Guillaume Garrigos and Nicolas Loizou and Dimitris Oikonomou and Konstantin Mishchenko and Fabian Schaipp}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2504.01898}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01898v1}, }