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The overfitting is one of the cursing subjects in the deep learning field. To solve this challenge, many approaches were proposed to regularize the learning models. They add some hyper-parameters to the model to extend the generalization;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Mohammad Mahdi Bejani , Mehdi Ghatee

While the Implicit Bias(or Implicit Regularization) of standard loss functions has been studied, the optimization geometry induced by discriminative metric-learning objectives remains largely unexplored.To the best of our knowledge, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jiawen Li

This paper studies the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from several noisy random linear measurements. We consider the setting where the rank of the ground-truth matrix is unknown a priori and use an objective function built from a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Lijun Ding , Zhen Qin , Liwei Jiang , Jinxin Zhou , Zhihui Zhu

We describe the Simple Greedy Matrix Completion Algorithm providing an efficient method for restoration of low-rank matrices from incomplete corrupted entries. We provide numerical evidences that, even in the simplest implementation, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Alexander Petukhov , Inna Kozlov

Sparse regularization techniques are well-established in machine learning, yet their application in neural networks remains challenging due to the non-differentiability of penalties like the $L_1$ norm, which is incompatible with stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Chris Kolb , Tobias Weber , Bernd Bischl , David Rügamer

In this paper, we study the implicit regularization of the gradient descent algorithm in homogeneous neural networks, including fully-connected and convolutional neural networks with ReLU or LeakyReLU activations. In particular, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Kaifeng Lyu , Jian Li

Implicit deep learning has recently become popular in the machine learning community since these implicit models can achieve competitive performance with state-of-the-art deep networks while using significantly less memory and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianxiang Gao , Hongyang Gao

We consider networks, trained via stochastic gradient descent to minimize $\ell_2$ loss, with the training labels perturbed by independent noise at each iteration. We characterize the behavior of the training dynamics near any parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Guy Blanc , Neha Gupta , Gregory Valiant , Paul Valiant

Recently, convex formulations of low-rank matrix factorization problems have received considerable attention in machine learning. However, such formulations often require solving for a matrix of the size of the data matrix, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Benjamin D. Haeffele , Rene Vidal

We revisit the landscape of the simple matrix factorization problem. For low-rank matrix factorization, prior work has shown that there exist infinitely many critical points all of which are either global minima or strict saddles. At a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Hossein Valavi , Sulin Liu , Peter J. Ramadge

We examine gradient descent in matrix factorization and show that under large step sizes the parameter space develops a fractal structure. We derive the exact critical step size for convergence in scalar-vector factorization and show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shuang Liang , Guido Montúfar

Low-rank modeling has a lot of important applications in machine learning, computer vision and social network analysis. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Wenliang Zhong

In practical instances of nonconvex matrix factorization, the rank of the true solution $r^{\star}$ is often unknown, so the rank $r$ of the model can be overspecified as $r>r^{\star}$. This over-parameterized regime of matrix factorization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Gavin Zhang , Salar Fattahi , Richard Y. Zhang

The optimization algorithms are crucial in training physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), as unsuitable methods may lead to poor solutions. Compared to the common gradient descent (GD) algorithm, implicit gradient descent (IGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xianliang Xu , Ting Du , Wang Kong , Bin Shan , Ye Li , Zhongyi Huang

Predicting unobserved entries of a partially observed matrix has found wide applicability in several areas, such as recommender systems, computational biology, and computer vision. Many scalable methods with rigorous theoretical guarantees…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-15 Vatsal Shah , Nikhil Rao , Weicong Ding

Many problems in data science can be treated as estimating a low-rank matrix from highly incomplete, sometimes even corrupted, observations. One popular approach is to resort to matrix factorization, where the low-rank matrix factors are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Tian Tong , Cong Ma , Yuejie Chi

We show that the gradient descent algorithm provides an implicit regularization effect in the learning of over-parameterized matrix factorization models and one-hidden-layer neural networks with quadratic activations. Concretely, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Yuanzhi Li , Tengyu Ma , Hongyang Zhang

Understanding the implicit regularization imposed by neural network architectures and gradient based optimization methods is a key challenge in deep learning and AI. In this work we provide sharp results for the implicit regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Johan S. Wind , Vegard Antun , Anders C. Hansen

We consider the case of inpainting single depth images. Without corresponding color images, previous or next frames, depth image inpainting is quite challenging. One natural solution is to regard the image as a matrix and adopt the low rank…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Hongyang Xue , Shengming Zhang , Deng Cai

Many tasks in machine learning and signal processing can be solved by minimizing a convex function of a measure. This includes sparse spikes deconvolution or training a neural network with a single hidden layer. For these problems, we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Lenaic Chizat , Francis Bach