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Early stopping of iterative algorithms is an algorithmic regularization method to avoid over-fitting in estimation and classification. In this paper, we show that early stopping can also be applied to obtain the minimax optimal testing in a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Meimei Liu , Guang Cheng

Machine learning models are often learned by minimising a loss function on the training data using a gradient descent algorithm. These models often suffer from overfitting, leading to a decline in predictive performance on unseen data. A…

Despite the extensive literature on training loss functions, the evaluation of generalization on the validation set remains underexplored. In this work, we conduct a systematic empirical and statistical study of how the validation criterion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Andrea Pollastro , Roberto Prevete

The strategy of early stopping is a regularization technique based on choosing a stopping time for an iterative algorithm. Focusing on non-parametric regression in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space, we analyze the early stopping strategy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-06-18 Garvesh Raskutti , Martin J. Wainwright , Bin Yu

This work examines the convergence of stochastic gradient-based optimization algorithms that use early stopping based on a validation function. The form of early stopping we consider is that optimization terminates when the norm of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Thomas Flynn , Kwang Min Yu , Abid Malik , Nicolas D'Imperio , Shinjae Yoo

Early stopping is a simple and widely used method to prevent over-training neural networks. We develop theoretical results to reveal the relationship between the optimal early stopping time and model dimension as well as sample size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Ruoqi Shen , Liyao Gao , Yi-An Ma

Early stopping monitors global validation loss and halts all parameter updates simultaneously, which is computationally costly for large transformers due to the extended time required for validation inference. We propose \textit{GradES}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qifu Wen , Xi Zeng , Zihan Zhou , Shuaijun Liu , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Ningxin Su , Reza Rawassizadeh

Early time classification algorithms aim to label a stream of features without processing the full input stream, while maintaining accuracy comparable to that achieved by applying the classifier to the entire input. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Liran Ringel , Regev Cohen , Daniel Freedman , Michael Elad , Yaniv Romano

Noisy labels are very common in real-world training data, which lead to poor generalization on test data because of overfitting to the noisy labels. In this paper, we claim that such overfitting can be avoided by "early stopping" training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Hwanjun Song , Minseok Kim , Dongmin Park , Jae-Gil Lee

A fundamental problem in machine learning is understanding the effect of early stopping on the parameters obtained and the generalization capabilities of the model. Even for linear models, the effect is not fully understood for arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Rishi Sonthalia , Jackie Lok , Elizaveta Rebrova

In machine learning practice, early stopping has been widely used to regularize models and can save computational costs by halting the training process when the model's performance on a validation set stops improving. However, conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Suqin Yuan , Runqi Lin , Lei Feng , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu

Early stopping based on hold-out data is a popular regularization technique designed to mitigate overfitting and increase the predictive accuracy of neural networks. Models trained with early stopping often provide relatively accurate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-28 Ziyi Liang , Yanfei Zhou , Matteo Sesia

Early stopping is a well known approach to reduce the time complexity for performing training and model selection of large scale learning machines. On the other hand, memory/space (rather than time) complexity is the main constraint in many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-02 Tomas Angles , Raffaello Camoriano , Alessandro Rudi , Lorenzo Rosasco

Early stopping of iterative algorithms is a widely-used form of regularization in statistics, commonly used in conjunction with boosting and related gradient-type algorithms. Although consistency results have been established in some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-15 Yuting Wei , Fanny Yang , Martin J. Wainwright

The early stopping strategy consists in stopping the training process of a neural network (NN) on a set $S$ of input data before training error is minimal. The advantage is that the NN then retains good generalization properties, i.e. it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Daniel Martin Xavier , Ludovic Chamoin , Jawher Jerray , Laurent Fribourg

While LLMs have seen substantial improvement in reasoning capabilities, they also sometimes overthink, generating unnecessary reasoning steps, particularly under uncertainty, given ill-posed or ambiguous queries. We introduce statistically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yangxinyu Xie , Tao Wang , Soham Mallick , Yan Sun , Georgy Noarov , Mengxin Yu , Tanwi Mallick , Weijie J. Su , Edgar Dobriban

Iterative learning procedures are ubiquitous in machine learning and modern statistics. Regularision is typically required to prevent inflating the expected loss of a procedure in later iterations via the propagation of noise inherent in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-24 Eric Ziebell , Ratmir Miftachov , Bernhard Stankewitz , Laura Hucker

We show that unconverged stochastic gradient descent can be interpreted as a procedure that samples from a nonparametric variational approximate posterior distribution. This distribution is implicitly defined as the transformation of an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-07 Dougal Maclaurin , David Duvenaud , Ryan P. Adams

Training neural network classifiers on datasets contaminated with noisy labels significantly increases the risk of overfitting. Thus, effectively implementing Early Stopping in noisy label environments is crucial. Under ideal circumstances,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 William Toner , Amos Storkey

Early stopping methods in deep learning face the challenge of balancing the volume of training and validation data, especially in the presence of label noise. Concretely, sparing more data for validation from training data would limit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Suqin Yuan , Lei Feng , Tongliang Liu
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