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Knowledge of the domain of applicability of a machine learning model is essential to ensuring accurate and reliable model predictions. In this work, we develop a new and general approach of assessing model domain and demonstrate that our…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-25 Lane E. Schultz , Yiqi Wang , Ryan Jacobs , Dane Morgan

Compression techniques for deep neural network models are becoming very important for the efficient execution of high-performance deep learning systems on edge-computing devices. The concept of model compression is also important for…

The competition "Predicting Generalization in Deep Learning (PGDL)" aims to provide a platform for rigorous study of generalization of deep learning models and offer insight into the progress of understanding and explaining these models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Sebastian Mežnar , Blaž Škrlj

Complexity measures are designed to capture complex behavior and quantify *how* complex, according to that measure, that particular behavior is. It can be expected that different complexity measures from possibly entirely different fields…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Joost J. Joosten , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

Neural networks appear to have mysterious generalization properties when using parameter counting as a proxy for complexity. Indeed, neural networks often have many more parameters than there are data points, yet still provide good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Wesley J. Maddox , Gregory Benton , Andrew Gordon Wilson

As shown in recent research, deep neural networks can perfectly fit randomly labeled data, but with very poor accuracy on held out data. This phenomenon indicates that loss functions such as cross-entropy are not a reliable indicator of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Yiding Jiang , Dilip Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi , Samy Bengio

This study builds a bridge between two well-studied but distant topics: fractal dimension and Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS). DGGSs are used as covering sets for geospatial vector data to calculate the Minkowski-Bouligand dimension.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Pramit Ghosh

While metric and similarity learning has been extensively studied from several theoretical perspectives, a rigorous understanding of its generalization performance is still lacking. In this paper, we investigate the generalization behavior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Junyu Zhou , Puyu Wang , Ding-Xuan Zhou

The fractal structure of real world objects is often analyzed using digital images. In this context, the compression fractal dimension is put forward. It provides a simple method for the direct estimation of the dimension of fractals stored…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-08-15 P. Chamorro-Posada

The present work shows a novel fractal dimension method for shape analysis. The proposed technique extracts descriptors from the shape by applying a multiscale approach to the calculus of the fractal dimension of that shape. The fractal…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-03 André R. Backes , João B. Florindo , Odemir M. Bruno

We examine Frostman-type characterisations and other extremal measure criteria for a range of fractal dimensions of sets. In particular we derive properties of the less familiar modified lower box dimension and upper correlation dimension.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Kenneth J. Falconer , Shuqin Zhang

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

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

Research on the generalization ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) has recently attracted a great deal of attention. However, due to their complex architectures and large numbers of parameters, measuring the generalization ability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Runqi Wang , Linlin Yang , Baochang Zhang , Wentao Zhu , David Doermann , Guodong Guo

While the numerical methods which utilizes partitions of equal-size, including the box-counting method, remain the most popular choice for computing the generalized dimension of multifractal sets, two mass- oriented methods are investigated…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-01-22 Yui Shiozawa , Bruce N. Miller , Jean-Louis Rouet

The fractal dimension of a surface allows its degree of roughness to be characterized quantitatively. However, limited effort is attempted to calculate the fractal dimension of surfaces computed from precisely known atomic coordinates from…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jonathan Yik Chang Ting , Andrew Thomas Agars Wood , Amanda Susan Barnard

In many real complex networks, the fractal and self-similarity properties have been found. The fractal dimension is a useful method to describe fractal property of complex networks. Fractal analysis is inadequate if only taking one fractal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-03 Daijun Wei , Xiaowu Chen , Cai Gao , Haixin Zhang , Bo Wei , Yong Deng

We present a novel set of rigorous and computationally efficient topology-based complexity notions that exhibit a strong correlation with the generalization gap in modern deep neural networks (DNNs). DNNs show remarkable generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Rayna Andreeva , Benjamin Dupuis , Rik Sarkar , Tolga Birdal , Umut Şimşekli

In this article, we present a novel box-covering algorithm for analyzing the fractal properties of complex networks. Unlike traditional algorithms that impose a predetermined box size, our approach assigns nodes to boxes identified by their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-23 Michal Lepek , Kordian Makulski , Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in natural language generation, yet they continue to display puzzling behaviors -- such as repetition and incoherence -- even when exhibiting low perplexity. This highlights a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xin Du , Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii