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We consider a minimization problem whose objective function is the sum of a fidelity term, not necessarily convex, and a regularization term defined by a positive regularization parameter $\lambda$ multiple of the $\ell_0$ norm composed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Yuesheng Xu

ResNets constrained to be bi-Lipschitz, that is, approximately distance preserving, have been a crucial component of recently proposed techniques for deterministic uncertainty quantification in neural models. We show that theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lewis Smith , Joost van Amersfoort , Haiwen Huang , Stephen Roberts , Yarin Gal

Neural networks have attracted a lot of attention due to its success in applications such as natural language processing and computer vision. For large scale data, due to the tremendous number of parameters in neural networks, overfitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-05 Xiaoxi Shen , Jinghang Lin

We develop regularization methods to find flat minima while training deep neural networks. These minima generalize better than sharp minima, yielding models outperforming baselines on real-world test data (which may be distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Adam Sandler , Diego Klabjan , Yuan Luo

This work unifies pseudo-time and inexact regularization techniques for nonmonotone classes of partial differential equations, into a regularized pseudo-time framework. Convergence of the residual at the predicted rate is investigated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Sara Pollock

A recent approach to the Beck-Fiala conjecture, a fundamental problem in combinatorics, has been to understand when random integer matrices have constant discrepancy. We give a complete answer to this question for two natural models:…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Dylan J. Altschuler , Jonathan Niles-Weed

The characteristic feature of inverse problems is their instability with respect to data perturbations. In order to stabilize the inversion process, regularization methods have to be developed and applied. In this work we introduce and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Andrea Ebner , Jürgen Frikel , Dirk Lorenz , Johannes Schwab , Markus Haltmeier

The widely used nuclear norm heuristic for rank minimization problems introduces a regularization parameter which is difficult to tune. We have recently proposed a method to approximate the regularization path, i.e., the optimal solution as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Niclas Blomberg , Cristian R. Rojas , Bo Wahlberg

Sparsity and rank functions are important ways of regularizing under-determined linear systems. Optimization of the resulting formulations is made difficult since both these penalties are non-convex and discontinuous. The most common remedy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Carl Olsson , Marcus Carlsson , Daniele Gerosa

Overdetermined systems of first kind integral equations appear in many applications. When the right-hand side is discretized, the resulting finite-data problem is ill-posed and admits infinitely many solutions. We propose a numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Patricia Díaz de Alba , Luisa Fermo , Federica Pes , Giuseppe Rodriguez

The goal of regression and classification methods in supervised learning is to minimize the empirical risk, that is, the expectation of some loss function quantifying the prediction error under the empirical distribution. When facing scarce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh , Daniel Kuhn , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

We relate discrepancy theory with the classic scheduling problems of minimizing max flow time and total flow time on unrelated machines. Specifically, we give a general reduction that allows us to transfer discrepancy bounds in the prefix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Nikhil Bansal , Lars Rohwedder , Ola Svensson

Effective regularization techniques are highly desired in deep learning for alleviating overfitting and improving generalization. This work proposes a new regularization scheme, based on the understanding that the flat local minima of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Yaowei Zheng , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao

Limited overlap between treated and control groups is a key challenge in observational analysis. Standard approaches like trimming importance weights can reduce variance but introduce a fundamental bias. We propose a sensitivity framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Yuanzhe Ma , Yian Huang , Hongseok Namkoong

Convolution neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks of computing vision. However, CNN tends to bias to low frequency components. They prioritize capturing low frequency patterns which lead them fail when suffering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Weiyu Guo , Yidong Ouyang

In machine learning, it is common to optimize the parameters of a probabilistic model, modulated by an ad hoc regularization term that penalizes some values of the parameters. Regularization terms appear naturally in Variational Inference,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Pierre Wolinski , Guillaume Charpiat , Yann Ollivier

Variance regularized counterfactual risk minimization (VRCRM) has been proposed as an alternative off-policy learning (OPL) method. VRCRM method uses a lower-bound on the $f$-divergence between the logging policy and the target policy as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hua Chang Bakker , Shashank Gupta , Harrie Oosterhuis

This report will be a literature review on a result in algorithmic discrepancy theory. We will begin by providing a quick overview on discrepancy theory and some major results in the field, and then focus on an important result by Shachar…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Michael Whitmeyer , Jonathan Liu

We study discrepancy minimization for vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$ under various settings. The main result is the analysis of a new simple random process in multiple dimensions through a comparison argument. As corollaries, we obtain bounds…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Ryan Alweiss , Yang P. Liu , Mehtaab Sawhney

When solving rank-deficient or discrete ill-posed problems by regularization methods, the choice of the regularization parameter is crucial. It is also of interest, the regularization norm used in the selection of the solution. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Ibrahima Dione