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We derive generalization error bounds for the training of two-layer neural networks without assuming boundedness of the loss function, using Wasserstein distance estimates on the discrepancy between a probability distribution and its…

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Despite the remarkable empirical success of score-based diffusion models, their statistical guarantees remain underdeveloped. Existing analyses often provide pessimistic convergence rates that do not reflect the intrinsic low-dimensional…

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In practice it is often found that large over-parameterized neural networks generalize better than their smaller counterparts, an observation that appears to conflict with classical notions of function complexity, which typically favor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Roman Novak , Yasaman Bahri , Daniel A. Abolafia , Jeffrey Pennington , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

We study regularization in the context of small sample-size learning with over-parameterized neural networks. Specifically, we shift focus from architectural properties, such as norms on the network weights, to properties of the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Christoph D. Hofer , Florian Graf , Marc Niethammer , Roland Kwitt

We study how well generative adversarial networks (GAN) learn probability distributions from finite samples by analyzing the convergence rates of these models. Our analysis is based on a new oracle inequality that decomposes the estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Yunfei Yang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are so complex that the existing learning theories do not provide a satisfactory explanation for why GANs have great success in practice. The same situation also remains largely open for deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Khoat Than , Nghia Vu

While deep learning is successful in a number of applications, it is not yet well understood theoretically. A satisfactory theoretical characterization of deep learning however, is beginning to emerge. It covers the following questions: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tomaso Poggio , Andrzej Banburski , Qianli Liao

It is well-known that modern neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. To mitigate this problem, a series of robust learning algorithms have been proposed. However, although the robust training error can be near zero via some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Binghui Li , Jikai Jin , Han Zhong , John E. Hopcroft , Liwei Wang

We study the continuity property of the generalized entropy as a function of the underlying probability distribution, defined with an action space and a loss function, and use this property to answer the basic questions in statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Aolin Xu

At the heart of machine learning lies the question of generalizability of learned rules over previously unseen data. While over-parameterized models based on neural networks are now ubiquitous in machine learning applications, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Melikasadat Emami , Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan , Parthe Pandit , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher

We use distributionally-robust optimization for machine learning to mitigate the effect of data poisoning attacks. We provide performance guarantees for the trained model on the original data (not including the poison records) by training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Farhad Farokhi

The classical statistical learning theory implies that fitting too many parameters leads to overfitting and poor performance. That modern deep neural networks generalize well despite a large number of parameters contradicts this finding and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Masaaki Imaizumi , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Deep predictive models of neuronal activity have recently enabled several new discoveries about the selectivity and invariance of neurons in the visual cortex. These models learn a shared set of nonlinear basis functions, which are linearly…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-19 Polina Turishcheva , Max Burg , Fabian H. Sinz , Alexander Ecker

Providing generalization guarantees for modern neural networks has been a crucial task in statistical learning. Recently, several studies have attempted to analyze the generalization error in such settings by using tools from fractal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-11 Benjamin Dupuis , George Deligiannidis , Umut Şimşekli

We consider machine learning, particularly regression, using locally-differentially private datasets. The Wasserstein distance is used to define an ambiguity set centered at the empirical distribution of the dataset corrupted by local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Farhad Farokhi

As shown in recent research, deep neural networks can perfectly fit randomly labeled data, but with very poor accuracy on held out data. This phenomenon indicates that loss functions such as cross-entropy are not a reliable indicator of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Yiding Jiang , Dilip Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi , Samy Bengio

Dimension reduction algorithms are a crucial part of many data science pipelines, including data exploration, feature creation and selection, and denoising. Despite their wide utilization, many non-linear dimension reduction algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-06 Ryan Murray , Adam Pickarski

Understanding how feature learning affects generalization is among the foremost goals of modern deep learning theory. Here, we study how the ability to learn representations affects the generalization performance of a simple class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth , William L. Tong , Cengiz Pehlevan

We investigate the in-distribution generalization of machine learning algorithms. We depart from traditional complexity-based approaches by analyzing information-theoretic bounds that quantify the dependence between a learning algorithm and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-27 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Ragnar Thobaben , Mikael Skoglund

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