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This study investigates leveraging stochastic gradient descent (SGD) to learn operators between general Hilbert spaces. We propose weak and strong regularity conditions for the target operator to depict its intrinsic structure and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Lei Shi , Jia-Qi Yang

We consider the problem of denoising with the help of prior information taken from a database of clean signals or images. Denoising with variational methods is very efficient if a regularizer well adapted to the nature of the data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Hui Shi , Yann Traonmilin , J-F Aujol

Learning probability distributions on the weights of neural networks (NNs) has recently proven beneficial in many applications. Bayesian methods, such as Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD), offer an elegant framework to reason about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-03 Ruiyi Zhang , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen , Lawrence Carin

We prove the first superpolynomial lower bounds for learning one-layer neural networks with respect to the Gaussian distribution using gradient descent. We show that any classifier trained using gradient descent with respect to square-loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Surbhi Goel , Aravind Gollakota , Zhihan Jin , Sushrut Karmalkar , Adam Klivans

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) often require high memory consumption and large computational loads. In order to deploy DNN algorithms efficiently on edge or mobile devices, a series of DNN compression algorithms have been explored,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Huanrui Yang , Minxue Tang , Wei Wen , Feng Yan , Daniel Hu , Ang Li , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a key ingredient in the training of deep neural networks and yet its geometrical significance appears elusive. We study a deterministic model in which the trajectories of our dynamical systems are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 R. Fioresi , P. Chaudhari , S. Soatto

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing our lives at an ever increasing pace. At the heart of this revolution is the recent advancements in deep neural networks (DNN), learning to perform sophisticated, high-level tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Nima Dehmamy , Neda Rohani , Aggelos Katsaggelos

Despite the tremendous success of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm in deep learning, little is known about how SGD finds generalizable solutions in the high-dimensional weight space. By analyzing the learning dynamics and loss…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-01-07 Yu Feng , Yuhai Tu

Deep learning models are dominating almost all artificial intelligence tasks such as vision, text, and speech processing. Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is the main tool for training such models, where the computations are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Masoud Asgharian , Alireza Ghaffari , Vahid Partovi Nia

Training deep neural network is a high dimensional and a highly non-convex optimization problem. Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm and it's variations are the current state-of-the-art solvers for this task. However, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Xi He , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Mikhail Smelyanskiy , Martin Takáč

Analyzing neural network dynamics via stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is crucial to building theoretical foundations for deep learning. Previous work has analyzed structured inputs within the \textit{hidden manifold model}, often under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-01 Jaeyong Bae , Hawoong Jeong

In this paper we focus on the problem of finding the optimal weights of the shallowest of neural networks consisting of a single Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU). These functions are of the form $\mathbf{x}\rightarrow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider the problem of learning a one-hidden-layer neural network: we assume the input $x\in \mathbb{R}^d$ is from Gaussian distribution and the label $y = a^\top \sigma(Bx) + \xi$, where $a$ is a nonnegative vector in $\mathbb{R}^m$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Rong Ge , Jason D. Lee , Tengyu Ma

Deep neural networks are typically trained by optimizing a loss function with an SGD variant, in conjunction with a decaying learning rate, until convergence. We show that simple averaging of multiple points along the trajectory of SGD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Pavel Izmailov , Dmitrii Podoprikhin , Timur Garipov , Dmitry Vetrov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a cornerstone algorithm for high-dimensional optimization, renowned for its empirical successes. Recent theoretical advances have provided a deep understanding of how SGD enables feature learning in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-23 Nived Rajaraman , Yanjun Han

We study the problem of transfer learning and fine-tuning in linear models for both regression and binary classification. In particular, we consider the use of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) on a linear model initialized with pretrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Reza Ghane , Danil Akhtiamov , Babak Hassibi

Understanding the dynamics of feature learning in neural networks (NNs) remains a significant challenge. The work of (Mousavi-Hosseini et al., 2023) analyzes a multiple index teacher-student setting and shows that a two-layer student…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Nikos Tsikouras , Yorgos Pantis , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Christos Tzamos

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is of fundamental importance in deep learning. Despite its simplicity, elucidating its efficacy remains challenging. Conventionally, the success of SGD is ascribed to the stochastic gradient noise (SGN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Chengli Tan , Jiangshe Zhang , Junmin Liu

We consider the dynamics of gradient descent (GD) in overparameterized single hidden layer neural networks with a squared loss function. Recently, it has been shown that, under some conditions, the parameter values obtained using GD achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Siddhartha Satpathi , R Srikant

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a fundamental tool for training deep neural networks across a variety of tasks. In self-supervised learning, different input categories map to distinct manifolds in the embedded neural state space.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-04 Guanming Zhang , Stefano Martiniani