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We construct custom regularization functions for use in supervised training of deep neural networks. Our technique is applicable when the ground-truth labels themselves exhibit internal structure; we derive a regularizer by learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Mohammadreza Mostajabi , Michael Maire , Gregory Shakhnarovich

We identify an implicit under-parameterization phenomenon in value-based deep RL methods that use bootstrapping: when value functions, approximated using deep neural networks, are trained with gradient descent using iterated regression onto…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Aviral Kumar , Rishabh Agarwal , Dibya Ghosh , Sergey Levine

Understanding the asymptotic behavior of gradient-descent training of deep neural networks is essential for revealing inductive biases and improving network performance. We derive the infinite-time training limit of a mathematically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-08 Samuel Lippl , L. F. Abbott , SueYeon Chung

Graph auto-encoders have proved to be useful in network embedding task. However, current models only consider explicit structures and fail to explore the informative latent structures cohered in networks. To address this issue, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Minglong Lei , Yong Shi , Lingfeng Niu

Modern deep learning models generalize remarkably well in-distribution, despite being overparametrized and trained with little to no explicit regularization. Instead, current theory credits implicit regularization imposed by the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jonathan Wenger , Beau Coker , Juraj Marusic , John P. Cunningham

We consider whether algorithmic choices in over-parameterized linear matrix factorization introduce implicit regularization. We focus on noiseless matrix sensing over rank-$r$ positive semi-definite (PSD) matrices in $\mathbb{R}^{n \times…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-16 Kelly Geyer , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Amir Kalev

A new method for the unsupervised learning of sparse representations using autoencoders is proposed and implemented by ordering the output of the hidden units by their activation value and progressively reconstructing the input in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Paul Bertens

Gradient descent can be surprisingly good at optimizing deep neural networks without overfitting and without explicit regularization. We find that the discrete steps of gradient descent implicitly regularize models by penalizing gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 David G. T. Barrett , Benoit Dherin

The theory of greedy low-rank learning (GLRL) aims to explain the impressive generalization capabilities of deep learning. It proves that stochastic gradient-based training implicitly regularizes neural networks towards low-rank solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Jiawei Zhao , Yifei Zhang , Beidi Chen , Florian Schäfer , Anima Anandkumar

Unsupervised learning is of growing interest because it unlocks the potential held in vast amounts of unlabelled data to learn useful representations for inference. Autoencoders, a form of generative model, may be trained by learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Antonia Creswell , Anil Anthony Bharath

Learning of low-rank matrices is fundamental to many machine learning applications. A state-of-the-art algorithm is the rank-one matrix pursuit (R1MP). However, it can only be used in matrix completion problems with the square loss. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok

With the growth of model and data sizes, a broad effort has been made to design pruning techniques that reduce the resource demand of deep learning pipelines, while retaining model performance. In order to reduce both inference and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Dayana Savostianova , Emanuele Zangrando , Gianluca Ceruti , Francesco Tudisco

Autoencoders are certainly among the most studied and used Deep Learning models: the idea behind them is to train a model in order to reconstruct the same input data. The peculiarity of these models is to compress the information through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Gabriele Martino , Davide Moroni , Massimo Martinelli

Deep learning systems are known to exhibit implicit regularization (alt. implicit bias), favoring simple solutions instead of merely minimizing the loss function. In some cases, we can analytically derive the implicit regularization --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Joseph H. Rudoler , Kevin Tan , Giles Hooker , Konrad P. Kording

Traditionally, when generative models of data are developed via deep architectures, greedy layer-wise pre-training is employed. In a well-trained model, the lower layer of the architecture models the data distribution conditional upon the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-17 Yingbo Zhou , Devansh Arpit , Ifeoma Nwogu , Venu Govindaraju

Autoencoders are popular among neural-network-based matrix completion models due to their ability to retrieve potential latent factors from the partially observed matrices. Nevertheless, when training data is scarce their performance is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Duc Minh Nguyen , Evaggelia Tsiligianni , Robert Calderbank , Nikos Deligiannis

Training machine learning models with the only accuracy as a final goal may promote prejudices and discriminatory behaviors embedded in the data. One solution is to learn latent representations that fulfill specific fairness metrics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Patrik Joslin Kenfack , Adil Mehmood Khan , Rasheed Hussain , S. M. Ahsan Kazmi

Implicit regularization refers to the tendency of local search algorithms to converge to low-dimensional solutions, even when such structures are not explicitly enforced. Despite its ubiquity, the mechanism underlying this behavior remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianhao Ma , Geyu Liang , Salar Fattahi

While many phenomena in physics and engineering are formally high-dimensional, their long-time dynamics often live on a lower-dimensional manifold. The present work introduces an autoencoder framework that combines implicit regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Kevin Zeng , Carlos E. Pérez De Jesús , Andrew J. Fox , Michael D. Graham

The ability of deep neural networks to generalize well in the overparameterized regime has become a subject of significant research interest. We show that overparameterized autoencoders exhibit memorization, a form of inductive bias that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Karren Yang , Mikhail Belkin , Caroline Uhler