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We analyze the sample complexity of full-batch Gradient Descent (GD) in the setup of non-smooth Stochastic Convex Optimization. We show that the generalization error of GD, with common choice of hyper-parameters, can be $\tilde \Theta(d/m +…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Roi Livni

Solutions of partial differential equations can often be written as surface integrals having a kernel related to a singular fundamental solution. Special methods are needed to evaluate the integral accurately at points on or near the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 J. Thomas Beale , Svetlana Tlupova

We consider the classical gradient descent algorithm with constant stepsizes, where some error is introduced in the computation of each gradient. More specifically, we assume some relative bound on the inexactness, in the sense that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Pierre Vernimmen , François Glineur

We derive generalization error bounds for the training of two-layer neural networks without assuming boundedness of the loss function, using Wasserstein distance estimates on the discrepancy between a probability distribution and its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-09 Jiang Yu Nguwi , Nicolas Privault

Generalization error bounds for deep neural networks trained by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) are derived by combining a dynamical control of an appropriate parameter norm and the Rademacher complexity estimate based on parameter norms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Mingze Wang , Chao Ma

By introducing a parameter, we give a unified generalization of some quadrature rules, which not only unify the recent results about error bounds for generalized mid-point, trapezoid and Simpson's rules, but also give some new error bounds…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-30 Wenjun Liu , Yong Jiang , Adnan Tuna

In many applications, gradient evaluations are inherently approximate, motivating the development of optimization methods that remain reliable under inexact first-order information. A common strategy in this context is adaptive evaluation,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Humberto Gimenes Macedo , Luís Felipe Bueno

We rewrite the standard nodal virtual element method as a generalised gradient method. This re-formulation allows for computing a reliable and efficient error estimator by locally reconstructing broken fluxes and potentials on elemental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Joscha Gedicke , Lorenzo Mascotto

This paper explores the generalization characteristics of iterative learning algorithms with bounded updates for non-convex loss functions, employing information-theoretic techniques. Our key contribution is a novel bound for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jingwen Fu , Nanning Zheng

This paper shows that error bounds can be used as effective tools for deriving complexity results for first-order descent methods in convex minimization. In a first stage, this objective led us to revisit the interplay between error bounds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Jérôme Bolte , Trong Phong Nguyen , Juan Peypouquet , Bruce Suter

In this paper, we provide the universal first-order methods of Composite Optimization with new complexity analysis. It delivers some universal convergence guarantees, which are not linked directly to any parametric problem class. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Yurii Nesterov

In this paper, we propose a new covering technique localized for the trajectories of SGD. This localization provides an algorithm-specific complexity measured by the covering number, which can have dimension-independent cardinality in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-20 Sejun Park , Umut Şimşekli , Murat A. Erdogdu

In this work we consider the regularization of a supervised learning problem by partial differential equations (PDEs) and derive error bounds for the obtained approximation in terms of a PDE error term and a data error term. Assuming that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Carsten Gräser , Prem Anand Alathur Srinivasan

We develop a gradient-like algorithm to minimize a sum of peer objective functions based on coordination through a peer interconnection network. The coordination admits two stages: the first is to constitute a gradient, possibly with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Sandushan Ranaweera , Chathuranga Weeraddana , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Carlo Fischione

We investigate error bounds for numerical solutions of divergence structure linear elliptic PDEs on compact manifolds without boundary. Our focus is on a class of monotone finite difference approximations, which provide a strong form of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Axel G. R. Turnquist

A subgradient method is presented for solving general convex optimization problems, the main requirement being that a strictly-feasible point is known. A feasible sequence of iterates is generated, which converges to within user-specified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 James Renegar

We study problem-dependent rates, i.e., generalization errors that scale near-optimally with the variance, the effective loss, or the gradient norms evaluated at the "best hypothesis." We introduce a principled framework dubbed "uniform…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-25 Yunbei Xu , Assaf Zeevi

In this work, we study the generalization capability of algorithms from an information-theoretic perspective. It has been shown that the expected generalization error of an algorithm is bounded from above by a function of the relative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

We provide improved error bounds for kernel-based numerical differentiation in terms of growth functions when kernels are of a finite smoothness, such as polyharmonic splines, thin plate splines or Wendland kernels. In contrast to existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Oleg Davydov

We prove novel convergence results for a stochastic proximal gradient algorithm suitable for solving a large class of convex optimization problems, where a convex objective function is given by the sum of a smooth and a possibly non-smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Bang Công Vũ