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Over-parametrized deep neural networks do not generalize well

Statistics Theory 2020-01-15 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

Recently it was shown in several papers that backpropagation is able to find the global minimum of the empirical risk on the training data using over-parametrized deep neural networks. In this paper a similar result is shown for deep neural networks with the sigmoidal squasher activation function in a regression setting, and a lower bound is presented which proves that these networks do not generalize well on a new data in the sense that they do not achieve the optimal minimax rate of convergence for estimation of smooth regression functions.

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@article{arxiv.1912.03925,
  title  = {Over-parametrized deep neural networks do not generalize well},
  author = {Michael Kohler and Adam Krzyzak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.03925},
  year   = {2020}
}
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