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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable empirical success, yet their training dynamics remain understood mainly from optimization rather than statistical principles. Here we develop a statistical framework for DNN training in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Minhao Yao , Ruoyu Wang , Xihong Lin , Lin Liu , Zhonghua Liu

Accurate approximation of scalar-valued functions from sample points is a key task in computational science. Recently, machine learning with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has emerged as a promising tool for scientific computing, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous thanks to their remarkable ability to model complex patterns across various domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, robotics, etc. While large DNN models are often more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Omkar Shende , Gayathri Ananthanarayanan , Marcello Traiola

This paper proposes a new perspective for analyzing the generalization power of deep neural networks (DNNs), i.e., directly disentangling and analyzing the dynamics of generalizable and non-generalizable interaction encoded by a DNN through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuxuan He , Junpeng Zhang , Lei Cheng , Hongyuan Zhang , Quanshi Zhang

Domain generalization aims to train models on multiple source domains so that they can generalize well to unseen target domains. Among many domain generalization methods, Fourier-transform-based domain generalization methods have gained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Hongyi Pan , Bin Wang , Zheyuan Zhang , Xin Zhu , Debesh Jha , Ahmet Enis Cetin , Concetto Spampinato , Ulas Bagci

A main puzzle of deep neural networks (DNNs) revolves around the apparent absence of "overfitting", defined in this paper as follows: the expected error does not get worse when increasing the number of neurons or of iterations of gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Tomaso Poggio , Qianli Liao , Brando Miranda , Andrzej Banburski , Xavier Boix , Jack Hidary

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) rely on inherent fluctuations in their internal parameters (weights and biases) to effectively navigate the complex optimization landscape and achieve robust performance. While these fluctuations are recognized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Darsh Pareek , Umesh Kumar , Ruthu Rao , Ravi Janjam

Stochastic gradient descent samples uniformly the training set to build an unbiased gradient estimate with a limited number of samples. However, at a given step of the training process, some data are more helpful than others to continue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Thibault Lahire

This paper investigates how various randomization techniques impact Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Randomization, like weight noise and dropout, aids in reducing overfitting and enhancing generalization, but their interactions are poorly…

Due to the nonlinear nature of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), one can not guarantee convergence to a unique global minimum of the loss when using optimizers relying only on local information, such as SGD. Indeed, this was a primary source of…

Generalization of deep neural networks remains one of the main open problems in machine learning. Previous theoretical works focused on deriving tight bounds of model complexity, while empirical works revealed that neural networks exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 James Wang , Cheng-Lin Yang

Currently, deep neural networks are deployed on low-power portable devices by first training a full-precision model using powerful hardware, and then deriving a corresponding low-precision model for efficient inference on such systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hao Li , Soham De , Zheng Xu , Christoph Studer , Hanan Samet , Tom Goldstein

Estimates of the generalization error are proved for a residual neural network with $L$ random Fourier features layers $\bar z_{\ell+1}=\bar z_\ell + \mathrm{Re}\sum_{k=1}^K\bar b_{\ell k}e^{\mathrm{i}\omega_{\ell k}\bar z_\ell}+…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Aku Kammonen , Jonas Kiessling , Petr Plecháč , Mattias Sandberg , Anders Szepessy , Raúl Tempone

Deep learning has revolutionized neuroimage analysis by delivering unprecedented speed and accuracy. However, the narrow scope of many training datasets constrains model robustness and generalizability. This challenge is particularly acute…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Malte Hoffmann

Datasets with significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels present challenges for training accurate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We propose a new perspective for understanding DNN generalization for such datasets, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Xingjun Ma , Yisen Wang , Michael E. Houle , Shuo Zhou , Sarah M. Erfani , Shu-Tao Xia , Sudanthi Wijewickrema , James Bailey

This survey article is concerned with the application of lattice rules to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), lattice rules being a family of quasi-Monte Carlo methods. They have demonstrated effectiveness in various contexts for high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Alexander Keller , Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens , Ian H. Sloan

Adversarial training is a widely used method to improve the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) over adversarial perturbations. However, it is empirically observed that adversarial training on over-parameterized networks often suffers…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-25 Zhongjie Shi , Fanghui Liu , Yuan Cao , Johan A. K. Suykens

In this work, we propose a new training method for finding minimum weight norm solutions in over-parameterized neural networks (NNs). This method seeks to improve training speed and generalization performance by framing NN training as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-22 Yamini Bansal , Madhu Advani , David D Cox , Andrew M Saxe

Understanding how deep neural networks learn useful internal representations from data remains a central open problem in the theory of deep learning. We introduce Neural Low-Degree Filtering (Neural LoFi), a stylized limit of gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yatin Dandi , Matteo Vilucchio , Luca Arnaboldi , Hugo Tabanelli , Florent Krzakala

We propose a distributed approach to train deep neural networks (DNNs), which has guaranteed convergence theoretically and great scalability empirically: close to 6 times faster on instance of ImageNet data set when run with 6 machines. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-04 Abhimanu Kumar , Pengtao Xie , Junming Yin , Eric P. Xing