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A longstanding problem for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is understanding their puzzling ability to generalize well. We approach this problem through the unconventional angle of \textit{cognitive abstraction mechanisms}, drawing inspiration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Alex Gain , Hava Siegelmann

For supervised learning models, the analysis of generalization ability (generalizability) is vital because the generalizability expresses how well a model will perform on unseen data. Traditional generalization methods, such as the VC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew

One of the principal scientific challenges in deep learning is explaining generalization, i.e., why the particular way the community now trains networks to achieve small training error also leads to small error on held-out data from the…

Deep neural networks have achieved strong performance in image classification tasks due to their ability to learn complex patterns from high-dimensional data. However, their large computational and memory requirements often limit deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sai Shi

Understanding the generalization behaviour of deep neural networks is a topic of recent interest that has driven the production of many studies, notably the development and evaluation of generalization "explainability" measures that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jonathan Jaegerman , Khalil Damouni , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

To address the common problem of high dimensionality in tensor regressions, we introduce a generalized tensor random projection method that embeds high-dimensional tensor-valued covariates into low-dimensional subspaces with minimal loss of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-03 Roberto Casarin , Radu Craiu , Qing Wang

The accuracy of deep learning, i.e., deep neural networks, can be characterized by dividing the total error into three main types: approximation error, optimization error, and generalization error. Whereas there are some satisfactory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Pengzhan Jin , Lu Lu , Yifa Tang , George Em Karniadakis

Existing generalization measures that aim to capture a model's simplicity based on parameter counts or norms fail to explain generalization in overparameterized deep neural networks. In this paper, we introduce a new, theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Lorenz Kuhn , Clare Lyle , Aidan N. Gomez , Jonas Rothfuss , Yarin Gal

The success of deep neural networks in many real-world applications is leading to new challenges in building more efficient architectures. One effective way of making networks more efficient is neural network compression. We provide an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Andrey Kuzmin , Markus Nagel , Saurabh Pitre , Sandeep Pendyam , Tijmen Blankevoort , Max Welling

In this paper, we establish novel data-dependent upper bounds on the generalization error through the lens of a "variable-size compressibility" framework that we introduce newly here. In this framework, the generalization error of an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-12 Milad Sefidgaran , Abdellatif Zaidi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) exhibit an exceptional capacity for generalization in practical applications. This work aims to capture the effect and benefits of depth for supervised learning via information-theoretic generalization bounds. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Haiyun He , Ziv Goldfeld

Generalization to unseen data remains poorly understood for deep learning classification and foundation models, especially in the open set scenario. How can one assess the ability of networks to adapt to new or extended versions of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Luciano Dyballa , Evan Gerritz , Steven W. Zucker

CNNs achieve remarkable performance by leveraging deep, over-parametrized architectures, trained on large datasets. However, they have limited generalization ability to data outside the training domain, and a lack of robustness to noise and…

In practice it is often found that large over-parameterized neural networks generalize better than their smaller counterparts, an observation that appears to conflict with classical notions of function complexity, which typically favor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Roman Novak , Yasaman Bahri , Daniel A. Abolafia , Jeffrey Pennington , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Beyond their origin in modeling many-body quantum systems, tensor networks have emerged as a promising class of models for solving machine learning problems, notably in unsupervised generative learning. While possessing many desirable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Alex Meiburg , Jing Chen , Jacob Miller , Raphaëlle Tihon , Guillaume Rabusseau , Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

Tensor Networks (TN) offer a powerful framework to efficiently represent very high-dimensional objects. TN have recently shown their potential for machine learning applications and offer a unifying view of common tensor decomposition models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Meraj Hashemizadeh , Michelle Liu , Jacob Miller , Guillaume Rabusseau

Tensor decompositions have been successfully applied to compress neural networks. The compression algorithms using tensor decompositions commonly minimize the approximation error on the weights. Recent work assumes the approximation error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jetze T. Schuurmans , Kim Batselier , Julian F. P. Kooij

Understanding generalization in deep neural networks is an active area of research. A promising avenue of exploration has been that of margin measurements: the shortest distance to the decision boundary for a given sample or that sample's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Coenraad Mouton

Overparameterized networks trained to convergence have shown impressive performance in domains such as computer vision and natural language processing. Pushing state of the art on salient tasks within these domains corresponds to these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 James O' Neill

Three important properties of a classification machinery are: (i) the system preserves the core information of the input data; (ii) the training examples convey information about unseen data; and (iii) the system is able to treat…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Raja Giryes , Guillermo Sapiro , Alex M. Bronstein