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Estimating the Generalization Error (GE) of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is an important task that often relies on availability of held-out data. The ability to better predict GE based on a single training set may yield overarching DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Angus Galloway , Anna Golubeva , Mahmoud Salem , Mihai Nica , Yani Ioannou , Graham W. Taylor

Conventional DNN training paradigms typically rely on one training set and one validation set, obtained by partitioning an annotated dataset used for training, namely gross training set, in a certain way. The training set is used for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Boyu Zhang , A. K. Qin , Hong Pan , Timos Sellis

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are prone to learning spurious features that correlate with the label during training but are irrelevant to the learning problem. This hurts model generalization and poses problems when deploying them in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Nihal Murali , Aahlad Puli , Ke Yu , Rajesh Ranganath , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) extend convolutional neural networks to operate on graphs. Despite their impressive performances in various graph learning tasks, the theoretical understanding of their generalization capability is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhiyang Wang , Juan Cervino , Alejandro Ribeiro

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) have been shown recently to characterize well the dynamics of training machine learning models with SGD. When the generalization error of the SDE approximation closely aligns with that of SGD in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Ziqiao Wang , Yongyi Mao

We study the generalization capabilities of Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs), a prevalent class of Graph Neural Networks (GNN). We derive generalization bounds specifically for MPNNs with normalized sum aggregation and mean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Sohir Maskey , Gitta Kutyniok , Ron Levie

Recent studies show that transformer-based architectures emulate gradient descent during a forward pass, contributing to in-context learning capabilities - an ability where the model adapts to new tasks based on a sequence of prompt…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Karthik Duraisamy

Despite its success in a wide range of applications, characterizing the generalization properties of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in non-convex deep learning problems is still an important challenge. While modeling the trajectories of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-12 Umut Şimşekli , Ozan Sener , George Deligiannidis , Murat A. Erdogdu

Generalization error bounds are essential for comprehending how well machine learning models work. In this work, we suggest a novel method, i.e., the Auxiliary Distribution Method, that leads to new upper bounds on expected generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Gholamali Aminian , Saeed Masiha , Laura Toni , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly being used in software engineering and code intelligence tasks. These are powerful tools that are capable of learning highly generalizable patterns from large datasets through millions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin , Aftab Hussain , Mohammad Amin Alipour , Vincent J. Hellendoorn

Understanding the implicit bias of training algorithms is of crucial importance in order to explain the success of overparametrised neural networks. In this paper, we study the dynamics of stochastic gradient descent over diagonal linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Scott Pesme , Loucas Pillaud-Vivien , Nicolas Flammarion

Although overparameterized models have achieved remarkable practical success, their theoretical properties, particularly their generalization behavior, remain incompletely understood. The well known double descents phenomenon suggests that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Haoran Zhan , Yingcun Xia

The optimization foundations of deep linear networks have recently received significant attention. However, due to their inherent non-convexity and hierarchical structure, analyzing the loss functions of deep linear networks remains a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Po Chen , Rujun Jiang , Peng Wang

The vulnerability to slight input perturbations is a worrying yet intriguing property of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite many previous works studying the reason behind such adversarial behavior, the relationship between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-07 Yujun Shi , Benben Liao , Guangyong Chen , Yun Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

Measuring the generalization performance of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) without relying on a validation set is a difficult task. In this work, we propose exploiting Latent Geometry Graphs (LGGs) to represent the latent spaces of trained DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Carlos Lassance , Louis Béthune , Myriam Bontonou , Mounia Hamidouche , Vincent Gripon

This work studies the global convergence and implicit bias of Gauss Newton's (GN) when optimizing over-parameterized one-hidden layer networks in the mean-field regime. We first establish a global convergence result for GN in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Michael Arbel , Romain Menegaux , Pierre Wolinski

Regularizing the gradient norm of the output of a neural network with respect to its inputs is a powerful technique, rediscovered several times. This paper presents evidence that gradient regularization can consistently improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Dániel Varga , Adrián Csiszárik , Zsolt Zombori

The capacity of deep learning models is often large enough to both learn the underlying statistical signal and overfit to noise in the training set. This noise memorization can be harmful especially for data with a low signal-to-noise ratio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wei Huang , Andi Han , Yujin Song , Yilan Chen , Denny Wu , Difan Zou , Taiji Suzuki

Various iterative reconstruction algorithms for inverse problems can be unfolded as neural networks. Empirically, this approach has often led to improved results, but theoretical guarantees are still scarce. While some progress on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Arash Behboodi , Holger Rauhut , Ekkehard Schnoor

Deep learning has aroused extensive attention due to its great empirical success. The efficiency of the block coordinate descent (BCD) methods has been recently demonstrated in deep neural network (DNN) training. However, theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Jinshan Zeng , Tim Tsz-Kit Lau , Shaobo Lin , Yuan Yao