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Over-parameterization and adaptive methods have played a crucial role in the success of deep learning in the last decade. The widespread use of over-parameterization has forced us to rethink generalization by bringing forth new phenomena,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-01 Vatsal Shah , Soumya Basu , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Sujay Sanghavi

Due to domain shift, deep neural networks (DNNs) usually fail to generalize well on unknown test data in practice. Domain generalization (DG) aims to overcome this issue by capturing domain-invariant representations from source domains.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Feng Hou , Yao Zhang , Yang Liu , Jin Yuan , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhongchao Shi , Jianping Fan , Zhiqiang He

In many important graph data processing applications the acquired information includes both node features and observations of the graph topology. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to exploit both sources of evidence but they do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Eli Chien , Jianhao Peng , Pan Li , Olgica Milenkovic

Understanding why deep neural networks (DNNs) fail to generalize to unseen samples remains a long-standing challenge. Existing studies mainly examine changes in externally observable factors such as data, representations, or outputs, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Huiqi Deng , Yibo Li , Quanshi Zhang , Peng Zhang , Hongbin Pei , Xia Hu

Can we use deep learning to predict when deep learning works? Our results suggest the affirmative. We created a dataset by training 13,500 neural networks with different architectures, on different variations of spiral datasets, and using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-05 Scott Yak , Javier Gonzalvo , Hanna Mazzawi

We describe an approach to understand the peculiar and counterintuitive generalization properties of deep neural networks. The approach involves going beyond worst-case theoretical capacity control frameworks that have been popular in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Charles H. Martin , Michael W. Mahoney

Fault detection in power distribution grids is critical for ensuring system reliability and preventing costly outages. Moreover, fault detection methodologies should remain robust to evolving grid topologies caused by factors such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Burak Karabulut , Carlo Manna , Chris Develder

We present a deep transformation model for probabilistic regression. Deep learning is known for outstandingly accurate predictions on complex data but in regression tasks, it is predominantly used to just predict a single number. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-02 Beate Sick , Torsten Hothorn , Oliver Dürr

Machine learning models fail to perform when facing out-of-distribution (OOD) domains, a challenging task known as domain generalization (DG). In this work, we develop a novel DG training strategy, we call PGrad, to learn a robust gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Zhe Wang , Jake Grigsby , Yanjun Qi

In this work, we describe a new approach that uses deep neural networks (DNN) to obtain regularization parameters for solving inverse problems. We consider a supervised learning approach, where a network is trained to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) are currently the most popular approach for learning and prediction on graph-structured data and are deployed in various fields, from social network analysis to drug discovery. However, there is limited…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-26 Nil Ayday , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

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

Standard deep learning architectures used for classification generate label predictions with a projection head and softmax activation function. Although successful, these methods fail to leverage the relational information between samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jason Brown , Bohan Chen , Harris Hardiman-Mostow , Jeff Calder , Andrea L. Bertozzi

Recommender systems are frequently challenged by the data sparsity problem. One approach to mitigate this issue is through cross-domain recommendation techniques. In a cross-domain context, sharing knowledge between domains can enhance the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Zixuan Yi , Iadh Ounis , Craig Macdonald

Geometric Deep Learning (GDL) unifies a broad class of machine learning techniques from the perspectives of symmetries, offering a framework for introducing problem-specific inductive biases like Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Osvaldo Velarde , Lucas Parra , Paolo Boldi , Hernan Makse

Neural networks often make predictions relying on the spurious correlations from the datasets rather than the intrinsic properties of the task of interest, facing sharp degradation on out-of-distribution (OOD) test data. Existing de-bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Xinzhe Han , Shuhui Wang , Chi Su , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

Tremendous breakthroughs have been developed in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (S4) through contrastive learning. However, due to limited annotations, the guidance on unlabeled images is generated by the model itself, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Haoyu Xie , Changqi Wang , Jian Zhao , Yang Liu , Jun Dan , Chong Fu , Baigui Sun

Understanding how neural networks generalize on unseen data is crucial for designing more robust and reliable models. In this paper, we study the generalization gap of neural networks using methods from topological data analysis. For this…

Deep neural networks (DNN) are prone to miscalibrated predictions, often exhibiting a mismatch between the predicted output and the associated confidence scores. Contemporary model calibration techniques mitigate the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Ramya Hebbalaguppe , Rishabh Patra , Tirtharaj Dash , Gautam Shroff , Lovekesh Vig

Hypergraph neural networks have been promising tools for handling learning tasks involving higher-order data, with notable applications in web graphs, such as modeling multi-way hyperlink structures and complex user interactions. Yet, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yifan Wang , Gonzalo R. Arce , Guangmo Tong