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Deep learning systems are known to exhibit implicit regularization (alt. implicit bias), favoring simple solutions instead of merely minimizing the loss function. In some cases, we can analytically derive the implicit regularization --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Joseph H. Rudoler , Kevin Tan , Giles Hooker , Konrad P. Kording

In this paper we study the problem of learning a shallow artificial neural network that best fits a training data set. We study this problem in the over-parameterized regime where the number of observations are fewer than the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Adel Javanmard , Jason D. Lee

Overparameterization is central to the success of deep learning, yet the mechanisms by which it improves optimization remain incompletely understood. We analyze weight-space symmetries in neural networks and show that overparameterization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Kusha Sareen , Mohammad Pedramfar , Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Mehran Shakerinava , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

A recent line of research has shown that gradient-based algorithms with random initialization can converge to the global minima of the training loss for over-parameterized (i.e., sufficiently wide) deep neural networks. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Difan Zou , Quanquan Gu

Deep learning models form one of the most powerful machine learning models for the extraction of important features. Most of the designs of deep neural models, i.e., the initialization of parameters, are still manually tuned. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mrittika Chakraborty , Wreetbhas Pal , Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay , Ujjwal Maulik

A candidate explanation of the good empirical performance of deep neural networks is the implicit regularization effect of first order optimization methods. Inspired by this, we prove a convergence theorem for nonconvex composite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Dávid Terjék , Diego González-Sánchez

While deep learning is successful in a number of applications, it is not yet well understood theoretically. A satisfactory theoretical characterization of deep learning however, is beginning to emerge. It covers the following questions: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tomaso Poggio , Andrzej Banburski , Qianli Liao

We consider gradient-based optimisation of wide, shallow neural networks, where the output of each hidden node is scaled by a positive parameter. The scaling parameters are non-identical, differing from the classical Neural Tangent Kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-19 Francois Caron , Fadhel Ayed , Paul Jung , Hoil Lee , Juho Lee , Hongseok Yang

Compact neural network offers many benefits for real-world applications. However, it is usually challenging to train the compact neural networks with small parameter sizes and low computational costs to achieve the same or better model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Shen Ren , Haosen Shi

Over-parametrization has become a popular technique in deep learning. It is observed that by over-parametrization, a larger neural network needs a fewer training iterations than a smaller one to achieve a certain level of performance --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jun-Kun Wang , Jacob Abernethy

Modern deep learning models are highly overparameterized, resulting in large sets of parameter configurations that yield the same outputs. A significant portion of this redundancy is explained by symmetries in the parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Bo Zhao , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

Over-parametrized deep neural networks trained by stochastic gradient descent are successful in performing many tasks of practical relevance. One aspect of over-parametrization is the possibility that the student network has a larger…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-01 Frederieke Richert , Roman Worschech , Bernd Rosenow

We propose to use deep learning to estimate parameters in statistical models when standard likelihood estimation methods are computationally infeasible. We show how to estimate parameters from max-stable processes, where inference is…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-02 Amanda Lenzi , Julie Bessac , Johann Rudi , Michael L. Stein

Deep neural networks are strongly over-parameterized, often containing far more weights than required for their task. Although such redundancy can aid optimization, it leads to inefficient deployment and high computational cost, motivating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-18 Diego Pesce , Yang-Hui He , Guido Caldarelli

Ensembles over neural network weights trained from different random initialization, known as deep ensembles, achieve state-of-the-art accuracy and calibration. The recently introduced batch ensembles provide a drop-in replacement that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Florian Wenzel , Jasper Snoek , Dustin Tran , Rodolphe Jenatton

Inferring parameters of macro-kinetic growth models, typically represented by Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE), from the experimental data is a crucial step in bioprocess engineering. Conventionally, estimates of the parameters are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Maxim Borisyak , Stefan Born , Peter Neubauer , Mariano Nicolas Cruz-Bournazou

We propose to impose symmetry in neural network parameters to improve parameter usage and make use of dedicated convolution and matrix multiplication routines. Due to significant reduction in the number of parameters as a result of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Xu Shell Hu , Sergey Zagoruyko , Nikos Komodakis

Overparameterization, the condition where models have more parameters than necessary to fit their training loss, is a crucial factor for the success of deep learning. However, the characteristics of the features learned by overparameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ahmet Cagri Duzgun , Samy Jelassi , Yuanzhi Li

Inference in expressive probabilistic models is generally intractable, which makes them difficult to learn and limits their applicability. Sum-product networks are a class of deep models where, surprisingly, inference remains tractable even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Abram L. Friesen , Pedro Domingos

Sum-Product Networks with complex probability distribution at the leaves have been shown to be powerful tractable-inference probabilistic models. However, while learning the internal parameters has been amply studied, learning complex leaf…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Mattia Desana , Christoph Schnörr