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The generalization error of a learning algorithm refers to the discrepancy between the loss of a learning algorithm on training data and that on unseen testing data. Various information-theoretic bounds on the generalization error have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xuetong Wu , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

Regularization is a well recognized powerful strategy to improve the performance of a learning machine and $l^q$ regularization schemes with $0<q<\infty$ are central in use. It is known that different $q$ leads to different properties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Shaobo Lin , Jinshan Zeng , Jian Fang , Zongben Xu

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

We study distributed learning with the least squares regularization scheme in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). By a divide-and-conquer approach, the algorithm partitions a data set into disjoint data subsets, applies the least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Shao-Bo Lin , Xin Guo , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Neural networks have become standard tools in the analysis of data, but they lack comprehensive mathematical theories. For example, there are very few statistical guarantees for learning neural networks from data, especially for classes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Mahsa Taheri , Fang Xie , Johannes Lederer

We consider the parametric learning problem, where the objective of the learner is determined by a parametric loss function. Employing empirical risk minimization with possibly regularization, the inferred parameter vector will be biased…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-16 Ahmad Beirami , Meisam Razaviyayn , Shahin Shahrampour , Vahid Tarokh

We propose a mathematical framework to explain implicit regularization from early stopping during the training of overparametrized neural networks. In the mean-field limit, the parameter distribution evolves according to a gradient flow on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Beatrice Acciaio , Jakob Heiss , Gudmund Pammer , Qinxin Yan

We study the generalization error of functions that interpolate prescribed data points and are selected by minimizing a weighted norm. Under natural and general conditions, we prove that both the interpolants and their generalization errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Weilin Li

Despite its empirical success, deep learning still lacks a comprehensive theoretical understanding of model fitting and generalization. This paper proposes the probability distribution (PD) learning framework to analyze the optimization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Binchuan Qi , Wei Gong , Li Li

We investigate the training and generalization errors of overparameterized neural networks (NNs) with a wide class of leaky rectified linear unit (ReLU) functions. More specifically, we carefully upper bound both the convergence rate of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yinglong Guo , Shaohan Li , Gilad Lerman

In this work, we study the generalization capability of algorithms from an information-theoretic perspective. It has been shown that the expected generalization error of an algorithm is bounded from above by a function of the relative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

Generalization capability to unseen domains is crucial for machine learning models when deploying to real-world conditions. We investigate the challenging problem of domain generalization, i.e., training a model on multi-domain source data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Qi Dou , Daniel C. Castro , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Ben Glocker

This paper studies generalization capabilities of neural networks (NNs) using new and improved PyTorch library Loss Landscape Analysis (LLA). LLA facilitates visualization and analysis of loss landscapes along with the properties of NN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Nikita Gabdullin

Random feature neural network approximations of the potential in Hamiltonian systems yield approximations of molecular dynamics correlation observables that have the expected error $\mathcal{O}\big((K^{-1}+J^{-1/2})^{\frac{1}{2}}\big)$, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Xin Huang , Petr Plechac , Mattias Sandberg , Anders Szepessy

We study the task of semi-supervised learning on multilayer graphs by taking into account both labeled and unlabeled observations together with the information encoded by each individual graph layer. We propose a regularizer based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Pedro Mercado , Francesco Tudisco , Matthias Hein

Recent works have cast some light on the mystery of why deep nets fit any data and generalize despite being very overparametrized. This paper analyzes training and generalization for a simple 2-layer ReLU net with random initialization, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Sanjeev Arora , Simon S. Du , Wei Hu , Zhiyuan Li , Ruosong Wang

We propose a custom learning algorithm for shallow over-parameterized neural networks, i.e., networks with single hidden layer having infinite width. The infinite width of the hidden layer serves as an abstraction for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Alexis Teter , Iman Nodozi , Abhishek Halder

In this paper, we study the generalization performance of global minima for implementing empirical risk minimization (ERM) on over-parameterized deep ReLU nets. Using a novel deepening scheme for deep ReLU nets, we rigorously prove that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Shao-Bo Lin , Yao Wang , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Generalization error bounds are critical to understanding the performance of machine learning models. In this work, we propose a new information-theoretic based generalization error upper bound applicable to supervised learning scenarios.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Gholamali Aminian , Laura Toni , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Recent results show that estimates defined by over-parametrized deep neural networks learned by applying gradient descent to a regularized empirical $L_2$ risk are universally consistent and achieve good rates of convergence. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-27 Selina Drews , Michael Kohler