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Understanding how large neural networks avoid memorizing training data is key to explaining their high generalization performance. To examine the structure of when and where memorization occurs in a deep network, we use a recently developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Cory Stephenson , Suchismita Padhy , Abhinav Ganesh , Yue Hui , Hanlin Tang , SueYeon Chung

Intelligence necessitates memory. Without memory, humans fail to perform various nontrivial tasks such as reading novels, playing games or solving maths. As the ultimate goal of machine learning is to derive intelligent systems that learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hung Le

It is frequently observed that overparameterized neural networks generalize well. Regarding such phenomena, existing theoretical work mainly devotes to linear settings or fully-connected neural networks. This paper studies the learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-17 Tian-Yi Zhou , Xiaoming Huo

Studying neural network loss landscapes provides insights into the nature of the underlying optimization problems. Unfortunately, loss landscapes are notoriously difficult to visualize in a human-comprehensible fashion. One common way to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tiffany Vlaar , Jonathan Frankle

We study the interplay between memorization and generalization of overparameterized networks in the extreme case of a single training example and an identity-mapping task. We examine fully-connected and convolutional networks (FCN and CNN),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-10 Chiyuan Zhang , Samy Bengio , Moritz Hardt , Michael C. Mozer , Yoram Singer

Large-scale deep learning models are known to memorize parts of the training set. In machine learning theory, memorization is often framed as interpolation or label fitting, and classical results show that this can be achieved when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Leonardo Iurada , Simone Bombari , Tatiana Tommasi , Marco Mondelli

Deep neural networks have excelled on a wide range of problems, from vision to language and game playing. Neural networks very gradually incorporate information into weights as they process data, requiring very low learning rates. If the…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Modern machine learning systems based on neural networks have shown great success in learning complex data patterns while being able to make good predictions on unseen data points. However, the limited interpretability of these systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

The field of artificial intelligence faces significant challenges in achieving both biological plausibility and computational efficiency, particularly in visual learning tasks. Current artificial neural networks, such as convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jacobo Ruiz , Manas Gupta

The ability of overparameterized deep networks to interpolate noisy data, while at the same time showing good generalization performance, has been recently characterized in terms of the double descent curve for the test error. Common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Matteo Gamba , Erik Englesson , Mårten Björkman , Hossein Azizpour

In this paper, we investigate the extrapolation capabilities of implicit deep learning models in handling unobserved data, where traditional deep neural networks may falter. Implicit models, distinguished by their adaptability in layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Juliette Decugis , Alicia Y. Tsai , Max Emerling , Ashwin Ganesh , Laurent El Ghaoui

Monotonic linear interpolation (MLI) - on the line connecting a random initialization with the minimizer it converges to, the loss and accuracy are monotonic - is a phenomenon that is commonly observed in the training of neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-15 Xiang Wang , Annie N. Wang , Mo Zhou , Rong Ge

Neural networks are surprisingly good at interpolating and perform remarkably well when the training set examples resemble those in the test set. However, they are often unable to extrapolate patterns beyond the seen data, even when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Yann Dubois , Gautier Dagan , Dieuwke Hupkes , Elia Bruni

Neural networks pose a privacy risk to training data due to their propensity to memorise and leak information. Focusing on image classification, we show that neural networks also unintentionally memorise unique features even when they occur…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 John Hartley , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

In machine learning, there is a fundamental trade-off between ease of optimization and expressive power. Neural Networks, in particular, have enormous expressive power and yet are notoriously challenging to train. The nature of that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Diogo Almeida , Nate Sauder

For four decades statistical physics has been providing a framework to analyse neural networks. A long-standing question remained on its capacity to tackle deep learning models capturing rich feature learning effects, thus going beyond the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-15 Jean Barbier , Francesco Camilli , Minh-Toan Nguyen , Mauro Pastore , Rudy Skerk

Deep neural networks are used in many state-of-the-art systems for machine perception. Once a network is trained to do a specific task, e.g., bird classification, it cannot easily be trained to do new tasks, e.g., incrementally learning to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Ronald Kemker , Marc McClure , Angelina Abitino , Tyler Hayes , Christopher Kanan

This paper studies the memorization capacity of deep neural networks with ReLU activation. Specifically, we investigate the minimal size of such networks to memorize any $N$ data points in the unit ball with pairwise separation distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xin Yang , Yunfei Yang

In this article, we explore the effects of memory terms in continuous-layer Deep Residual Networks by studying Neural ODEs (NODEs). We investigate two types of models. On one side, we consider the case of Residual Neural Networks with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Domènec Ruiz-Balet , Elisa Affili , Enrique Zuazua