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Tensor networks have recently found applications in machine learning for both supervised learning and unsupervised learning. The most common approaches for training these models are gradient descent methods. In this work, we consider an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Sheng-Hsuan Lin , Olivier Kuijpers , Sebastian Peterhansl , Frank Pollmann

Deep neural networks often contain far more parameters than training examples, yet they still manage to generalize well in practice. Classical complexity measures such as VC-dimension or PAC-Bayes bounds usually become vacuous in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Aviral Dhingra

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

We study regularization in the context of small sample-size learning with over-parameterized neural networks. Specifically, we shift focus from architectural properties, such as norms on the network weights, to properties of the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Christoph D. Hofer , Florian Graf , Marc Niethammer , Roland Kwitt

Matrix-product states (MPS) have proven to be a versatile ansatz for modeling quantum many-body physics. For many applications, and particularly in one-dimension, they capture relevant quantum correlations in many-body wavefunctions while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-03 Joshua B. Moore , Hugo P. Stackhouse , Ben D. Fulcher , Sahand Mahmoodian

Understanding the inductive bias and generalization properties of large overparametrized machine learning models requires to characterize the dynamics of the training algorithm. We study the learning dynamics of large two-layer neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-30 Andrea Montanari , Pierfrancesco Urbani

Deep learning has been extensively used in various fields, such as phase imaging, 3D imaging reconstruction, phase unwrapping, and laser speckle reduction, particularly for complex problems that lack analytic models. Its data-driven nature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Xuyu Zhang , Haofan Huang , Dawei Zhang , Songlin Zhuang , Shensheng Han , Puxiang Lai , Honglin Liu

The bias-variance trade-off is a central concept in supervised learning. In classical statistics, increasing the complexity of a model (e.g., number of parameters) reduces bias but also increases variance. Until recently, it was commonly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-25 Jason W. Rocks , Pankaj Mehta

This paper introduces matrix product state (MPS) decomposition as a new and systematic method to compress multidimensional data represented by higher-order tensors. It solves two major bottlenecks in tensor compression: computation and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-02 Johann A. Bengua , Ho N. Phien , Hoang D. Tuan , Minh N. Do

Due to the realization that deep reinforcement learning algorithms trained on high-dimensional tasks can strongly overfit to their training environments, there have been several studies that investigated the generalization performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Safa Alver , Doina Precup

A surprising phenomenon in modern machine learning is the ability of a highly overparameterized model to generalize well (small error on the test data) even when it is trained to memorize the training data (zero error on the training data).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-01 Jasper Tan , Blake Mason , Hamid Javadi , Richard G. Baraniuk

Despite being able to capture a range of features of the data, high accuracy models trained with supervision tend to make similar predictions. This seemingly implies that high-performing models share similar biases regardless of training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Raphael Gontijo-Lopes , Yann Dauphin , Ekin D. Cubuk

Adversarial training has shown its ability in producing models that are robust to perturbations on the input data, but usually at the expense of decrease in the standard accuracy. To mitigate this issue, it is commonly believed that more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yifei Min , Lin Chen , Amin Karbasi

A machine learning (ML) system must learn not only to match the output of a target function on a training set, but also to generalize to novel situations in order to yield accurate predictions at deployment. In most practical applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Clare Lyle

Generalization is at the core of machine learning models. However, the definition of generalization is not entirely clear. We employ set theory to introduce the concepts of algorithms, hypotheses, and dataset generalization. We analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shiqi Liu

Benign overfitting, the phenomenon where interpolating models generalize well in the presence of noisy data, was first observed in neural network models trained with gradient descent. To better understand this empirical observation, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Spencer Frei , Niladri S. Chatterji , Peter L. Bartlett

Multilayer perceptrons (MLP) with one hidden layer have been used for a long time to deal with non-linear regression. However, in some task, MLP's are too powerful models and a small mean square error (MSE) may be more due to overfitting…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-10 Joseph Rynkiewicz

One of the major open problems in machine learning is to characterize generalization in the overparameterized regime, where most traditional generalization bounds become inconsistent even for overparameterized linear regression. In many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Jing Xu , Jiaye Teng , Yang Yuan , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Current multiple-point based simulations implementations generate geostatistical models at the scale of the training image; there is an assumption that the categories are exclusive at smaller scales. The goal of this paper is to generate…

Applications · Statistics 2022-02-23 Saina Lajevardi , Clayton V. Deutsch

One of the central puzzles in modern machine learning is the ability of heavily overparametrized models to generalize well. Although the low-dimensional structure of typical datasets is key to this behavior, most theoretical studies of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Marylou Gabrié , Levent Sagun , Giulio Biroli