@article{efficientlyescapingsaddlepointsunder, title = {Efficiently Escaping Saddle Points under Generalized Smoothness via Self-Bounding Regularity}, author = {Daniel Yiming Cao and August Y. Chen and Karthik Sridharan and Benjamin Tang}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2503.04712}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04712v2}, }