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We show generalisation error bounds for deep learning with two main improvements over the state of the art. (1) Our bounds have no explicit dependence on the number of classes except for logarithmic factors. This holds even when formulating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Antoine Ledent , Waleed Mustafa , Yunwen Lei , Marius Kloft

While neural networks have been remarkably successful in a wide array of applications, implementing them in resource-constrained hardware remains an area of intense research. By replacing the weights of a neural network with quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jinjie Zhang , Yixuan Zhou , Rayan Saab

We establish novel rates for the Gaussian approximation of random deep neural networks with Gaussian parameters (weights and biases) and Lipschitz activation functions, in the wide limit. Our bounds apply for the joint output of a network…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Dario Trevisan

We consider fine-tuning a pretrained deep neural network on a target task. We study the generalization properties of fine-tuning to understand the problem of overfitting, which has often been observed (e.g., when the target dataset is small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Haotian Ju , Dongyue Li , Hongyang R. Zhang

We prove bounds on the generalization error of convolutional networks. The bounds are in terms of the training loss, the number of parameters, the Lipschitz constant of the loss and the distance from the weights to the initial weights. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Philip M. Long , Hanie Sedghi

Graph neural networks are widely used tools for graph prediction tasks. Motivated by their empirical performance, prior works have developed generalization bounds for graph neural networks, which scale with graph structures in terms of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Haotian Ju , Dongyue Li , Aneesh Sharma , Hongyang R. Zhang

Recent works have highlighted scale invariance or symmetry present in the weight space of a typical deep network and the adverse effect it has on the Euclidean gradient based stochastic gradient descent optimization. In this work, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Vijay Badrinarayanan , Bamdev Mishra , Roberto Cipolla

Although weight and activation quantization is an effective approach for Deep Neural Network (DNN) compression and has a lot of potentials to increase inference speed leveraging bit-operations, there is still a noticeable gap in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Dongqing Zhang , Jiaolong Yang , Dongqiangzi Ye , Gang Hua

Convolutional neural networks (CNN's) are powerful and widely used tools. However, their interpretability is far from ideal. One such shortcoming is the difficulty of deducing a network's ability to generalize to unseen data. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Rickard Brüel Gabrielsson , Gunnar Carlsson

We investigate the generalizability of deep learning based on the sensitivity to input perturbation. We hypothesize that the high sensitivity to the perturbation of data degrades the performance on it. To reduce the sensitivity to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-01 Yuichi Yoshida , Takeru Miyato

We propose a new approach to the problem of neural network expressivity, which seeks to characterize how structural properties of a neural network family affect the functions it is able to compute. Our approach is based on an interrelated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-20 Maithra Raghu , Ben Poole , Jon Kleinberg , Surya Ganguli , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

The role of weight on the weighted networks is investigated by studying the effect of weight on community structures. We use weighted modularity $Q^w$ to evaluate the partitions and Weighted Extremal Optimization algorithm to detect…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-26 Ying Fan , Menghui Li , Peng Zhang , Jinshan Wu , Zengru Di

Bayesian neural networks provide a direct and natural way to extend standard deep neural networks to support probabilistic deep learning through the use of probabilistic layers that, traditionally, encode weight (and bias) uncertainty. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Daniel T. Chang

Following the invention in 2017 of the EWC method, several methods have been proposed to calculate the importance of neural network weights for use in the EWC method. Despite the significant difference in calculating the importance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Alexey Kutalev

Generative models have recently been explored for synthesizing neural network weights. These approaches take neural network checkpoints as training data and aim to generate high-performing weights during inference. In this work, we examine…

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Tensor regression networks achieve high compression rate of neural networks while having slight impact on performances. They do so by imposing low tensor rank structure on the weight matrices of fully connected layers. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Xingwei Cao , Guillaume Rabusseau

The willingness to trust predictions formulated by automatic algorithms is key in a vast number of domains. However, a vast number of deep architectures are only able to formulate predictions without an associated uncertainty. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Matteo Ferrante , Tommaso Boccato , Nicola Toschi

Weight decay is a widely used technique for training Deep Neural Networks(DNN). It greatly affects generalization performance but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Recent works show that for layers followed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yucong Zhou , Yunxiao Sun , Zhao Zhong

There is an ongoing and dedicated effort to estimate bounds on the generalization error of deep learning models, coupled with an increasing interest with practical metrics that can be used to experimentally evaluate a model's ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mengqing Huang , Hongchuan Yu , Jianjun Zhang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be able to fit a random labeling over data while still being able to generalize well for normal labels. Describing CNN capacity through a posteriori measures of complexity has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Konstantinos Pitas , Andreas Loukas , Mike Davies , Pierre Vandergheynst