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Gradient descent can be surprisingly good at optimizing deep neural networks without overfitting and without explicit regularization. We find that the discrete steps of gradient descent implicitly regularize models by penalizing gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 David G. T. Barrett , Benoit Dherin

In this paper we study the training dynamics for gradient flow on over-parametrized tensor decomposition problems. Empirically, such training process often first fits larger components and then discovers smaller components, which is similar…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-26 Rong Ge , Yunwei Ren , Xiang Wang , Mo Zhou

Implicit regularization is an important way to interpret neural networks. Recent theory starts to explain implicit regularization with the model of deep matrix factorization (DMF) and analyze the trajectory of discrete gradient dynamics in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Jian Cao , Chen Qian , Yihui Huang , Dicheng Chen , Yuncheng Gao , Jiyang Dong , Di Guo , Xiaobo Qu

This paper is concerned with the low Tucker-rank tensor completion problem, which is about reconstructing a tensor $ T \in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n \times n}$ of low multilinear rank from partially observed entries. Riemannian optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Haifeng Wang , Jinchi Chen , Ke Wei

We study the problem of recovering a low-tubal-rank tensor $\mathcal{X}\_\star\in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n \times k}$ from noisy linear measurements under the t-product framework. A widely adopted strategy involves factorizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 ZHiyu Liu , Haobo Geng , Xudong Wang , Yandong Tang , Zhi Han , Yao Wang

Modern deep learning models generalize remarkably well in-distribution, despite being overparametrized and trained with little to no explicit regularization. Instead, current theory credits implicit regularization imposed by the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jonathan Wenger , Beau Coker , Juraj Marusic , John P. Cunningham

A widely believed explanation for the remarkable generalization capacities of overparameterized neural networks is that the optimization algorithms used for training induce an implicit bias towards benign solutions. To grasp this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Maria Matveev , Vit Fojtik , Hung-Hsu Chou , Gitta Kutyniok , Johannes Maly

When optimizing over-parameterized models, such as deep neural networks, a large set of parameters can achieve zero training error. In such cases, the choice of the optimization algorithm and its respective hyper-parameters introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Gauthier Gidel , Francis Bach , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Implicit regularization refers to the tendency of local search algorithms to converge to low-dimensional solutions, even when such structures are not explicitly enforced. Despite its ubiquity, the mechanism underlying this behavior remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianhao Ma , Geyu Liang , Salar Fattahi

Recent years have seen a flurry of activities in designing provably efficient nonconvex procedures for solving statistical estimation problems. Due to the highly nonconvex nature of the empirical loss, state-of-the-art procedures often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Cong Ma , Kaizheng Wang , Yuejie Chi , Yuxin Chen

The recent low-rank prior based models solve the tensor completion problem efficiently. However, these models fail to exploit the local patterns of tensors, which compromises the performance of tensor completion. In this paper, we propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Liyu Su

Many problems encountered in science and engineering can be formulated as estimating a low-rank object (e.g., matrices and tensors) from incomplete, and possibly corrupted, linear measurements. Through the lens of matrix and tensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Cong Ma , Xingyu Xu , Tian Tong , Yuejie Chi

It is believed that Gradient Descent (GD) induces an implicit bias towards good generalization in training machine learning models. This paper provides a fine-grained analysis of the dynamics of GD for the matrix sensing problem, whose goal…

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It is important to understand how dropout, a popular regularization method, aids in achieving a good generalization solution during neural network training. In this work, we present a theoretical derivation of an implicit regularization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhongwang Zhang , Zhi-Qin John Xu

This paper considers the problem of recovering a tensor with an underlying low-tubal-rank structure from a small number of corrupted linear measurements. Traditional approaches tackling such a problem require the computation of tensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zhiyu Liu , Zhi Han , Yandong Tang , Xi-Le Zhao , Yao Wang

This paper studies the stability of low-rank implicit regularization in perturbed deep matrix factorization, where the target matrix is corrupted by a noise matrix. We first derive sufficient spectral conditions under which gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Jingzhe Wang , Hung-Hsu Chou

We study the implicit regularization of gradient descent towards structured sparsity via a novel neural reparameterization, which we call a diagonally grouped linear neural network. We show the following intriguing property of our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-31 Jiangyuan Li , Thanh V. Nguyen , Chinmay Hegde , Raymond K. W. Wong

Recently, a tensor factorization based method for a low tubal rank tensor completion problem of a third order tensor was proposed, which performed better than some existing methods. Tubal rank is only defined on one mode of third order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Quan Yu , Xinzhen Zhang , Zheng-Hai Huang

Gradient Descent (GD) has been proven effective in solving various matrix factorization problems. However, its optimization behavior with large initial values remains less understood. To address this gap, this paper presents a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Hengchao Chen , Xin Chen , Mohamad Elmasri , Qiang Sun

Deep neural networks with remarkably strong generalization performances are usually over-parameterized. Despite explicit regularization strategies are used for practitioners to avoid over-fitting, the impacts are often small. Some…

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