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Disobeying the classical wisdom of statistical learning theory, modern deep neural networks generalize well even though they typically contain millions of parameters. Recently, it has been shown that the trajectories of iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Tolga Birdal , Aaron Lou , Leonidas Guibas , Umut Şimşekli

Inspired by convolutional neural networks on 1D and 2D data, graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have been developed for various learning tasks on graph data, and have shown superior performance on real-world datasets. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Saurabh Verma , Zhi-Li Zhang

Deep neural networks achieve stellar generalisation on a variety of problems, despite often being large enough to easily fit all their training data. Here we study the generalisation dynamics of two-layer neural networks in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-21 Sebastian Goldt , Madhu S. Advani , Andrew M. Saxe , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

In the context of neural network models, overparametrization refers to the phenomena whereby these models appear to generalize well on the unseen data, even though the number of parameters significantly exceeds the sample sizes, and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-25 Matt Emschwiller , David Gamarnik , Eren C. Kızıldağ , Ilias Zadik

Recently, the deep learning community has given growing attention to neural architectures engineered to learn problems in relational domains. Convolutional Neural Networks employ parameter sharing over the image domain, tying the weights of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Marcelo O. R. Prates , Pedro H. C. Avelar , Henrique Lemos , Marco Gori , Luis Lamb

We study the generalization of deep learning models in relation to the convex hull of their training sets. A trained image classifier basically partitions its domain via decision boundaries and assigns a class to each of those partitions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Approximation and learning of classifiers of large data sets by neural networks in terms of high-dimensional geometry and statistical learning theory are investigated. The influence of the VC dimension of sets of input-output functions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Vera Kurkova , Marcello Sanguineti

The application of deep learning to symbolic domains remains an active research endeavour. Graph neural networks (GNN), consisting of trained neural modules which can be arranged in different topologies at run time, are sound alternatives…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Pedro H. C. Avelar , Henrique Lemos , Marcelo O. R. Prates , Luis Lamb

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard approach for learning and reasoning over relational data, leveraging the message-passing mechanism that iteratively propagates node embeddings through graph structures. While GNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Wei Wang , Jiahao Zhang

Many existing transductive bounds rely on classical complexity measures that are computationally intractable and often misaligned with empirical behavior. In this work, we establish new representation-based generalization bounds in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 MoonJeong Park , Seungbeom Lee , Kyungmin Kim , Jaeseung Heo , Seunghyuk Cho , Shouheng Li , Sangdon Park , Dongwoo Kim

This extended abstract describes a framework for analyzing the expressiveness, learning, and (structural) generalization of hypergraph neural networks (HyperGNNs). Specifically, we focus on how HyperGNNs can learn from finite datasets and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zhezheng Luo , Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances on several fundamental inference tasks. As a result, there is a surge of interest in using these models for making potentially important decisions in high-regret applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Mengshu Sun , Caiwen Ding , Bhavya Kailkhura , Xue Lin

Graph-structured data such as social networks, functional brain networks, gene regulatory networks, communications networks have brought the interest in generalizing deep learning techniques to graph domains. In this paper, we are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Xavier Bresson , Thomas Laurent

Conventional wisdom attributes the mysterious generalization abilities of overparameterized neural networks to gradient descent (and its variants). The recent volume hypothesis challenges this view: it posits that these generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yotam Alexander , Yonatan Slutzky , Yuval Ran-Milo , Nadav Cohen

Several works have aimed to explain why overparameterized neural networks generalize well when trained by Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). The consensus explanation that has emerged credits the randomized nature of SGD for the bias of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Shengchao Liu , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Dimitris Achlioptas

Graph Transformers, which incorporate self-attention and positional encoding, have recently emerged as a powerful architecture for various graph learning tasks. Despite their impressive performance, the complex non-convex interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongkang Li , Meng Wang , Tengfei Ma , Sijia Liu , Zaixi Zhang , Pin-Yu Chen

Generalization error bounds for deep neural networks trained by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) are derived by combining a dynamical control of an appropriate parameter norm and the Rademacher complexity estimate based on parameter norms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Mingze Wang , Chao Ma

Deep neural networks generalize well on unseen data though the number of parameters often far exceeds the number of training examples. Recently proposed complexity measures have provided insights to understanding the generalizability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jingling Li , Yanchao Sun , Jiahao Su , Taiji Suzuki , Furong Huang

At the heart of machine learning lies the question of generalizability of learned rules over previously unseen data. While over-parameterized models based on neural networks are now ubiquitous in machine learning applications, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Melikasadat Emami , Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan , Parthe Pandit , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher