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Deep learning has non-convex loss landscape and its optimization dynamics is hard to analyze or control. Nevertheless, the dynamics can be empirically convex-like across various tasks, models, optimizers, hyperparameters, etc. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhiqi Bu , Shiyun Xu , Jialin Mao

Recently, several studies have investigated active learning (AL) for natural language processing tasks to alleviate data dependency. However, for query selection, most of these studies mainly rely on uncertainty-based sampling, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yekyung Kim

Several recent papers investigate Active Learning (AL) for mitigating the data dependence of deep learning for natural language processing. However, the applicability of AL to real-world problems remains an open question. While in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Aditya Siddhant , Zachary C. Lipton

Performance-critical machine learning models should be robust to input perturbations not seen during training. Adversarial training is a method for improving a model's robustness to some perturbations by including them in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Angus Galloway , Thomas Tanay , Graham W. Taylor

The increasing complexity of deep learning architectures is resulting in training time requiring weeks or even months. This slow training is due in part to vanishing gradients, in which the gradients used by back-propagation are extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Bharat Singh , Soham De , Yangmuzi Zhang , Thomas Goldstein , Gavin Taylor

Understanding the per-layer learning dynamics of deep neural networks is of significant interest as it may provide insights into how neural networks learn and the potential for better training regimens. We investigate learning in Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ayush Manish Agrawal , Atharva Tendle , Harshvardhan Sikka , Sahib Singh , Amr Kayid

Deep Learning has revolutionized machine learning and artificial intelligence, achieving superhuman performance in several standard benchmarks. It is well-known that deep learning models are inefficient to train; they learn by processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Fartash Faghri

Weight decay is one of the standard tricks in the neural network toolbox, but the reasons for its regularization effect are poorly understood, and recent results have cast doubt on the traditional interpretation in terms of $L_2$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Guodong Zhang , Chaoqi Wang , Bowen Xu , Roger Grosse

Despite significant advances in optimizers for training, most research works use common scheduler choices like Cosine or exponential decay. In this paper, we study \emph{GreedyLR}, a novel scheduler that adaptively adjusts the learning rate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shreyas Subramanian , Bala Krishnamoorthy , Pranav Murthy

Training deep neural networks with noise and data heterogeneity is a major challenge. We introduce Lightweight Learnable Adaptive Weighting (LiLAW), a method that dynamically adjusts the loss weight of each training sample based on its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Abhishek Moturu , Muhammad Muzammil , Anna Goldenberg , Babak Taati

Humans are efficient continual learning systems; we continually learn new skills from birth with finite cells and resources. Our learning is highly optimized both in terms of capacity and time while not suffering from catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Philip J. Ball , Yingzhen Li , Angus Lamb , Cheng Zhang

Training neural networks can be challenging, especially as the complexity of the problem increases. Despite using wider or deeper networks, training them can be a tedious process, especially if a wrong choice of the hyperparameter is made.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-30 D. Veerababu , Ashwin A. Raikar , Prasanta K. Ghosh

Neural networks are typically trained with a single learning rate across all layers. While recent empirical evidence suggests that assigning layer-specific learning rates can accelerate training, a principled understanding of the conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sihan Zeng , Sujay Bhatt , Sumitra Ganesh

Modern deep learning (DL) architectures are trained using variants of the SGD algorithm that is run with a $\textit{manually}$ defined learning rate schedule, i.e., the learning rate is dropped at the pre-defined epochs, typically when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yunfei Teng , Jing Wang , Anna Choromanska

Active learning (AL) is a prominent technique for reducing the annotation effort required for training machine learning models. Deep learning offers a solution for several essential obstacles to deploying AL in practice but introduces many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Akim Tsvigun , Artem Shelmanov , Gleb Kuzmin , Leonid Sanochkin , Daniil Larionov , Gleb Gusev , Manvel Avetisian , Leonid Zhukov

Regularization is a critical component in deep learning. The most commonly used approach, weight decay, applies a constant penalty coefficient uniformly across all parameters. This may be overly restrictive for some parameters, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jörg K. H. Franke , Michael Hefenbrock , Gregor Koehler , Frank Hutter

Artificial neural networks are trained by a standard backpropagation learning algorithm with regularization to model and predict the systematics of -decay of heavy and superheavy nuclei. This approach to regression is implemented in two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-29 Paulo S. A. Freitas , John W. Clark

Among attempts at giving a theoretical account of the success of deep neural networks, a recent line of work has identified a so-called lazy training regime in which the network can be well approximated by its linearization around…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Thomas George , Guillaume Lajoie , Aristide Baratin

Learning Rate (LR) is an important hyper-parameter to tune for effective training of deep neural networks (DNNs). Even for the baseline of a constant learning rate, it is non-trivial to choose a good constant value for training a DNN.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Yanzhao Wu , Ling Liu , Juhyun Bae , Ka-Ho Chow , Arun Iyengar , Calton Pu , Wenqi Wei , Lei Yu , Qi Zhang

Ensembling deep learning models is a shortcut to promote its implementation in new scenarios, which can avoid tuning neural networks, losses and training algorithms from scratch. However, it is difficult to collect sufficient accurate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Jun Yang , Fei Wang