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Modern deep learning models generalize remarkably well in-distribution, despite being overparametrized and trained with little to no explicit regularization. Instead, current theory credits implicit regularization imposed by the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jonathan Wenger , Beau Coker , Juraj Marusic , John P. Cunningham

This paper explores the connection between learning trajectories of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and their generalization capabilities when optimized using (stochastic) gradient descent algorithms. Instead of concentrating solely on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jingwen Fu , Zhizheng Zhang , Dacheng Yin , Yan Lu , Nanning Zheng

Algorithm unfolding or unrolling is the technique of constructing a deep neural network (DNN) from an iterative algorithm. Unrolled DNNs often provide better interpretability and superior empirical performance over standard DNNs in signal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-21 Carter Lyons , Raghu G. Raj , Margaret Cheney

Implicit deep learning has received increasing attention recently due to the fact that it generalizes the recursive prediction rules of many commonly used neural network architectures. Its prediction rule is provided implicitly based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Tianxiang Gao , Hailiang Liu , Jia Liu , Hridesh Rajan , Hongyang Gao

Large width limits have been a recent focus of deep learning research: modulo computational practicalities, do wider networks outperform narrower ones? Answering this question has been challenging, as conventional networks gain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Geoff Pleiss , John P. Cunningham

There has been considerable effort to better understand the generalization capabilities of deep neural networks both as a means to unlock a theoretical understanding of their success as well as providing directions for further improvements.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-30 Michael Munn , Benoit Dherin , Javier Gonzalvo

When training deep neural networks, it is typically assumed that the training examples are uniformly difficult to learn. Or, to restate, it is assumed that the training error will be uniformly distributed across the training examples. Based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Andrew J. R. Simpson

Deep neural networks often contain far more parameters than training examples, yet they still manage to generalize well in practice. Classical complexity measures such as VC-dimension or PAC-Bayes bounds usually become vacuous in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Aviral Dhingra

We derive a tight generalization bound for quantum machine learning that is applicable to a wide range of supervised tasks, data, and models. Our bound is both efficiently computable and free of big-O notation. Furthermore, we point out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xin Wang , Rebing Wu

In recent studies, several asymptotic upper bounds on generalization errors on deep neural networks (DNNs) are theoretically derived. These bounds are functions of several norms of weights of the DNNs, such as the Frobenius and spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Mete Ozay

Research on generalization bounds for deep networks seeks to give ways to predict test error using just the training dataset and the network parameters. While generalization bounds can give many insights about architecture design, training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yi Zhang , Arushi Gupta , Nikunj Saunshi , Sanjeev Arora

Deep neural networks' remarkable ability to correctly fit training data when optimized by gradient-based algorithms is yet to be fully understood. Recent theoretical results explain the convergence for ReLU networks that are wider than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Asaf Noy , Yi Xu , Yonathan Aflalo , Lihi Zelnik-Manor , Rong Jin

Promising resolutions of the generalization puzzle observe that the actual number of parameters in a deep network is much smaller than naive estimates suggest. The renormalization group is a compelling example of a problem which has very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Anita de Mello Koch , Ellen de Mello Koch , Robert de Mello Koch

Adaptive gradient methods such as Adam have gained increasing popularity in deep learning optimization. However, it has been observed that compared with (stochastic) gradient descent, Adam can converge to a different solution with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Difan Zou , Yuan Cao , Yuanzhi Li , Quanquan Gu

We study in this paper lower bounds for the generalization error of models derived from multi-layer neural networks, in the regime where the size of the layers is commensurate with the number of samples in the training data. We show that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-08 Inbar Seroussi , Ofer Zeitouni

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are known to suffer from performance degradation as the number of layers increases, which is usually attributed to over-smoothing. Despite the apparent consensus, we observe that there exists a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Weilin Cong , Morteza Ramezani , Mehrdad Mahdavi

This work provides a theoretical framework for assessing the generalization error of graph neural networks in the over-parameterized regime, where the number of parameters surpasses the quantity of data points. We explore two widely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-02 Gholamali Aminian , Yixuan He , Gesine Reinert , Łukasz Szpruch , Samuel N. Cohen

Normalized gradient descent has shown substantial success in speeding up the convergence of exponentially-tailed loss functions (which includes exponential and logistic losses) on linear classifiers with separable data. In this paper, we go…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Hossein Taheri , Christos Thrampoulidis

The notion of implicit bias, or implicit regularization, has been suggested as a means to explain the surprising generalization ability of modern-days overparameterized learning algorithms. This notion refers to the tendency of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Assaf Dauber , Meir Feder , Tomer Koren , Roi Livni

Understanding generalization in overparameterized neural networks hinges on the interplay between the data geometry, neural architecture, and training dynamics. In this paper, we theoretically explore how data geometry controls this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Tongtong Liang , Alexander Cloninger , Rahul Parhi , Yu-Xiang Wang