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The success of denoising diffusion models raises important questions regarding their generalisation behaviour, particularly in high-dimensional settings. Notably, it has been shown that when training and sampling are performed perfectly,…

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Normalization layers (e.g., Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization) were introduced to help with optimization difficulties in very deep nets, but they clearly also help generalization, even in not-so-deep nets. Motivated by the long-held…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kaifeng Lyu , Zhiyuan Li , Sanjeev Arora

Deep-learning models for traffic data prediction can have superior performance in modeling complex functions using a multi-layer architecture. However, a major drawback of these approaches is that most of these approaches do not offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Agnimitra Sengupta , Sudeepta Mondal , Adway Das , S. Ilgin Guler

Many optimization problems require balancing multiple conflicting objectives. As gradient descent is limited to single-objective optimization, we introduce its direct generalization: Jacobian descent (JD). This algorithm iteratively updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Pierre Quinton , Valérian Rey

Convolution Neural Networks, known as ConvNets exceptionally perform well in many complex machine learning tasks. The architecture of ConvNets demands the huge and rich amount of data and involves with a vast number of parameters that leads…

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Regularization is a core component of modern inverse problems, as it helps establish the well-posedness of the solution of interest. Popular regularization approaches include variational regularization and iterative regularization. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Jie Gao , Cesare Molinari , Silvia Villa , Jingwei Liang

Deep reinforcement learning has been applied more and more widely nowadays, especially in various complex control tasks. Effective exploration for noisy networks is one of the most important issues in deep reinforcement learning. Noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Shuai Han , Wenbo Zhou , Jing Liu , Shuai Lü

The outcome of Jacobian singular values regularization was studied for supervised learning problems. It also was shown that Jacobian conditioning regularization can help to avoid the ``mode-collapse'' problem in Generative Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Arip Asadulaev , Igor Kuznetsov , Gideon Stein , Andrey Filchenkov

While much work has been devoted to understanding the implicit (and explicit) regularization of deep nonlinear networks in the supervised setting, this paper focuses on unsupervised learning, i.e., autoencoders are trained with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Harald Steck , Dario Garcia Garcia

Regularization plays an important role in generalization of deep neural networks, which are often prone to overfitting with their numerous parameters. L1 and L2 regularizers are common regularization tools in machine learning with their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Dae Hoon Park , Chiu Man Ho , Yi Chang , Huaqing Zhang

This study investigates how weight decay affects the update behavior of individual neurons in deep neural networks through a combination of applied analysis and experimentation. Weight decay can cause the expected magnitude and angular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Atli Kosson , Bettina Messmer , Martin Jaggi

Equivariance is a powerful inductive bias in neural networks, improving generalisation and physical consistency. Recently, however, non-equivariant models have regained attention, due to their better runtime performance and imperfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Torben Berndt , Jan Stühmer

Quantum Error Correction (QEC) decoding faces a fundamental accuracy-efficiency tradeoff. Classical methods like Minimum Weight Perfect Matching (MWPM) exhibit variable performance across noise models and suffer from polynomial complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 David Zenati , Eliya Nachmani

Recently deep neural networks have shown their capacity to memorize training data, even with noisy labels, which hurts generalization performance. To mitigate this issue, we provide a simple but effective baseline method that is robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Yucen Luo , Jun Zhu , Tomas Pfister

From the statistical learning perspective, complexity control via explicit regularization is a necessity for improving the generalization of over-parameterized models. However, the impressive generalization performance of neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Taejong Joo , Uijung Chung

Bootstrapping is behind much of the successes of deep Reinforcement Learning. However, learning the value function via bootstrapping often leads to unstable training due to fast-changing target values. Target Networks are employed to…

Learning under non-smooth objectives remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning, as abrupt changes in conditioning variables can induce highly non-smooth loss landscapes and destabilize optimization. This difficulty is particularly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Gyeongwan Gu , Jinwoo Hyun , Hyeontae Jo , Jae Kyoung Kim

An important problem in machine learning is the ability to learn tasks in a sequential manner. If trained with standard first-order methods most models forget previously learned tasks when trained on a new task, which is often referred to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-10 Reinhard Heckel

A neural network regularizer (e.g., weight decay) boosts performance by explicitly penalizing the complexity of a network. In this paper, we penalize inferior network activations -- feature embeddings -- which in turn regularize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Ahmed Taha , Alex Hanson , Abhinav Shrivastava , Larry Davis

Nowadays, attention models are one of the popular candidates for speech recognition. So far, many studies mainly focus on the encoder structure or the attention module to enhance the performance of these models. However, mostly ignore the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Tobias Watzel , Ludwig Kürzinger , Lujun Li , Gerhard Rigoll