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The choice of batch-size in a stochastic optimization algorithm plays a substantial role for both optimization and generalization. Increasing the batch-size used typically improves optimization but degrades generalization. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yeming Wen , Kevin Luk , Maxime Gazeau , Guodong Zhang , Harris Chan , Jimmy Ba

In this note, I summarise and comment on joint work with C. Bernardin, V. Kannan and J. L. Lebowitz concerning two harmonic systems with bulk noises whose nonequilibrium steady states (NESS) are nearly identical (they share the same thermal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 Jani Lukkarinen

Enhancing the generalisation abilities of neural networks (NNs) through integrating noise such as MixUp or Dropout during training has emerged as a powerful and adaptable technique. Despite the proven efficacy of noise in NN training, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Martin Ferianc , Ondrej Bohdal , Timothy Hospedales , Miguel Rodrigues

We study the effect of extrinsic noise in metabolic networks. We introduce external random fluctuations at the kinetic level, and show how these lead to a stochastic generalization of standard Metabolic Control Analysis. While Summation and…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Andrea Rocco

Stochastic resetting and noise-enhanced stability are two phenomena which can affect the lifetime and relaxation of nonequilibrium states. They can be considered as measures of controlling the efficiency of the completion process when a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-22 Karol Capała , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

In order to understand the impact of random influences at physical boundary on the evolution of multiscale systems, a stochastic partial differential equation model under a fast random dynamical boundary condition is investigated. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-08-07 Wei Wang , Jinqiao Duan

We introduce a family of stochastic models motivated by the study of nonequilibrium steady states of fluid equations. These models decompose the deterministic dynamics of interest into fundamental building blocks, i.e., minimal vector…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Andrea Agazzi , Jonathan C. Mattingly , Omar Melikechi

Noise-induced failures in the stabilization of an unstable orbit in the one-dimensional logistic map are considered as large fluctuations from a stable state. The properties of the large fluctuations are examined by determination and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. A. Khovanov , N. A. Khovanova , P. V. E. McClintock

The effect of a change of noise amplitudes in overdamped diffusive systems is linked to their unperturbed behavior by means of a nonequilibrium fluctuation-response relation. This formula holds also for systems with state-independent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-13 Cem Yolcu , Antoine Bérut , Gianmaria Falasco , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto , Marco Baiesi

Stochasticity (or noise) at cellular and molecular levels has been observed extensively as a universal feature for living systems. However, how living systems deal with noise while performing desirable biological functions remains a major…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-22 Qing Nie , Lingxia Qiao , Yuchi Qiu , Lei Zhang , Wei Zhao

Sliding motion is evolution on a switching manifold of a discontinuous, piecewise-smooth system of ordinary differential equations. In this paper we quantitatively study the effects of small-amplitude, additive, white Gaussian noise on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-04-27 David J. W. Simpson , Rachel Kuske

A two dimensional flow model is introduced with deterministic behavior consisting of bursts which become successively larger, with longer interburst time intervals between them. The system is symmetric in one variable x and there are bursts…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. M. Finn , E. R. Tracy , W. E. Cooke , A. S. Richardson

Stochastic inverse problems considered in this article consist of estimating the probability distributions of intrinsically random inputs of computer models. These estimations are based on observable outputs affected by model noise, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Nicolas Bousquet , Mélanie Blazère , Thomas Cerbelaud

Convex regularizers are often used for sparse learning. They are easy to optimize, but can lead to inferior prediction performance. The difference of $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ ($\ell_{1-2}$) regularizer has been recently proposed as a nonconvex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Xiawei Guo

We investigate bifurcation phenomena between slow and fast convergences of synchronization errors arising in the proposed synchronization system consisting of two identical nonlinear dynamical systems linked by a common noisy input only.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Katsutoshi Yoshida , Yusuke Nishizawa

In this work, we investigate data fitting problems with random noises. A randomized progressive iterative regularization method is proposed. It works well for large-scale matrix computations and converges in expectation to the least-squares…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Dakang Cen , Wenlong Zhang , Junbin Zhong

Recent studies have shown that regularization techniques using soft labels, e.g., label smoothing, Mixup, and CutMix, not only enhance image classification accuracy but also mitigate miscalibration due to overconfident predictions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jonghyun Park , Juyeop Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

The ability for policies to generalize to new environments is key to the broad application of RL agents. A promising approach to prevent an agent's policy from overfitting to a limited set of training environments is to apply regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Maximilian Igl , Kamil Ciosek , Yingzhen Li , Sebastian Tschiatschek , Cheng Zhang , Sam Devlin , Katja Hofmann

In this paper we study a non strictly systems of conservation law by stochastic perturbation. We show the existence and uniqueness of the solution. We do not assume that $BV$-regularity for the initial conditions. The proofs are based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Christian Olivera

This paper studies the problem of perturbed convex and smooth optimization. The main results describe how the solution and the value of the problem change if the objective function is perturbed. Examples include linear, quadratic, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-08 Vladimir Spokoiny