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by nshm 2770 days ago
Another sin they have is that they write "with high probability" in the theorem but they do not strictly define that in the main section of the paper. If you look into appendix you'll see that they guarantee the probability 1 - \delta and delta affects the convergence. It means that if you add many many parameters then you just need a couple attempts to converge well. So "IF it converges" is becoming much better "VERY OFTEN it converges". Sorry, no real passion to read the paper in details, so this is just an intuition from a quick look.