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Grokking refers to a delayed generalization following overfitting when optimizing artificial neural networks with gradient-based methods. In this work, we demonstrate that grokking can be induced by regularization, either explicit or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Pascal Jr Tikeng Notsawo , Guillaume Dumas , Guillaume Rabusseau

Regularization is a fundamental technique to prevent over-fitting and to improve generalization performances by constraining a model's complexity. Current Deep Networks heavily rely on regularizers such as Data-Augmentation (DA) or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Randall Balestriero , Leon Bottou , Yann LeCun

There are various inverse problems -- including reconstruction problems arising in medical imaging -- where one is often aware of the forward operator that maps variables of interest to the observations. It is therefore natural to ask…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Jaweria Amjad , Zhaoyan Lyu , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Deep learning is the mainstream technique for many machine learning tasks, including image recognition, machine translation, speech recognition, and so on. It has outperformed conventional methods in various fields and achieved great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , David Xianfeng Gu

Learning approaches have recently become very popular in the field of inverse problems. A large variety of methods has been established in recent years, ranging from bi-level learning to high-dimensional machine learning techniques. Most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Martin Benning , Guy Gilboa , Joana Sarah Grah , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Recently, deep-networks-based hashing (deep hashing) has become a leading approach for large-scale image retrieval. It aims to learn a compact bitwise representation for images via deep networks, so that similar images are mapped to nearby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Libing Geng , Yan Pan , Jikai Chen , Hanjiang Lai

While the Implicit Bias(or Implicit Regularization) of standard loss functions has been studied, the optimization geometry induced by discriminative metric-learning objectives remains largely unexplored.To the best of our knowledge, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jiawen Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely applied in different scenarios thanks to the development of deep neural networks. The original GAN was proposed based on the non-parametric assumption of the infinite capacity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Ziqiang Li , Muhammad Usman , Rentuo Tao , Pengfei Xia , Chaoyue Wang , Huanhuan Chen , Bin Li

Learning distributed representations for nodes in graphs is a crucial primitive in network analysis with a wide spectrum of applications. Linear graph embedding methods learn such representations by optimizing the likelihood of both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Yihan Gao , Chao Zhang , Jian Peng , Aditya Parameswaran

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

One classical canon of statistics is that large models are prone to overfitting, and model selection procedures are necessary for high dimensional data. However, many overparameterized models, such as neural networks, perform very well in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-05 Xi Chen , Qiang Liu , Xin T. Tong

Training deep neural networks is known to require a large number of training samples. However, in many applications only few training samples are available. In this work, we tackle the issue of training neural networks for classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Soufiane Belharbi , Clément Chatelain , Romain Hérault , Sébastien Adam

We introduce a regularization loss based on kernel mean embeddings with rotation-invariant kernels on the hypersphere (also known as dot-product kernels) for self-supervised learning of image representations. Besides being fully competitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Léon Zheng , Gilles Puy , Elisa Riccietti , Patrick Pérez , Rémi Gribonval

We study the implicit regularization of gradient descent towards structured sparsity via a novel neural reparameterization, which we call a diagonally grouped linear neural network. We show the following intriguing property of our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-31 Jiangyuan Li , Thanh V. Nguyen , Chinmay Hegde , Raymond K. W. Wong

Generalization to unseen degradations remains a fundamental challenge for low-level vision models. This paper aims to investigate the underlying mechanism of this failure, using image deraining as a primary case study due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jinfan Hu , Zhiyuan You , Jinjin Gu , Kaiwen Zhu , Tianfan Xue , Chao Dong

Neural networks can be powerful function approximators, which are able to model high-dimensional feature distributions from a subset of examples drawn from the target distribution. Naturally, they perform well at generalizing within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Aaron Eisermann , Jae Hee Lee , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

In this paper we present a generalized Deep Learning-based approach for solving ill-posed large-scale inverse problems occuring in medical image reconstruction. Recently, Deep Learning methods using iterative neural networks and cascaded…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Andreas Kofler , Markus Haltmeier , Tobias Schaeffter , Marc Kachelrieß , Marc Dewey , Christian Wald , Christoph Kolbitsch

The key distinguishing property of a Bayesian approach is marginalization, rather than using a single setting of weights. Bayesian marginalization can particularly improve the accuracy and calibration of modern deep neural networks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Andrew Gordon Wilson , Pavel Izmailov

The paper uses statistical and differential geometric motivation to acquire prior information about the learning capability of an artificial neural network on a given dataset. The paper considers a broad class of neural networks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ankan Dutta , Arnab Rakshit

We address the fundamental question of why deep neural networks generalize by establishing a pointwise generalization theory for fully connected networks. This framework resolves long-standing barriers to characterizing the rich nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shaojie Li , Yunbei Xu