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Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have emerged as powerful generative tools, capable of synthesizing high-quality spatiotemporal content. Yet, their potential goes far beyond mere video generation. We argue that the training dynamics of VDMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Pablo Acuaviva , Aram Davtyan , Mariam Hassan , Sebastian Stapf , Ahmad Rahimi , Alexandre Alahi , Paolo Favaro

A major challenge in understanding the generalization of deep learning is to explain why (stochastic) gradient descent can exploit the network architecture to find solutions that have good generalization performance when using high capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Yifan Wu , Barnabas Poczos , Aarti Singh

The impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have sparked debate over whether these models genuinely generalize to unseen tasks or predominantly rely on memorizing vast amounts of pretraining data. To explore this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xinyi Wang , Antonis Antoniades , Yanai Elazar , Alfonso Amayuelas , Alon Albalak , Kexun Zhang , William Yang Wang

Deep networks have been known to have extraordinary generalization abilities, via mechanisms that aren't yet well understood. It is also known that upon shuffling labels in the training data to varying degrees, deep networks, trained with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Simran Ketha , Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy

Despite the popularity and success of deep learning, there is limited understanding of when, how, and why neural networks generalize to unseen examples. Since learning can be seen as extracting information from data, we formally study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Hrayr Harutyunyan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) generalize well despite their massive size and capability of memorizing all examples. There is a hypothesis that DNNs start learning from simple patterns and the hypothesis is based on the existence of examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Ikki Kishida , Hideki Nakayama

Understanding the impact of data structure on the computational tractability of learning is a key challenge for the theory of neural networks. Many theoretical works do not explicitly model training data, or assume that inputs are drawn…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-23 Sebastian Goldt , Bruno Loureiro , Galen Reeves , Florent Krzakala , Marc Mézard , Lenka Zdeborová

Memorisation is a natural part of learning from real-world data: neural models pick up on atypical input-output combinations and store those training examples in their parameter space. That this happens is well-known, but how and where are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Verna Dankers , Ivan Titov

Overparameterized deep networks that generalize well have been key to the dramatic success of deep learning in recent years. The reasons for their remarkable ability to generalize are not well understood yet. When class labels in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Simran Ketha , Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy

The vast applications of deep generative models are anchored in three core capabilities -- generating new instances, reconstructing inputs, and learning compact representations -- across various data types, such as discrete text/protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Guangyi Liu , Yu Wang , Zeyu Feng , Qiyu Wu , Liping Tang , Yuan Gao , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui , Julian McAuley , Zichao Yang , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

The recovery of training data from generative models ("model inversion") has been extensively studied for diffusion models in the data domain as a memorization/overfitting phenomenon. Latent diffusion models (LDMs), which operate on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mingxing Rao , Bowen Qu , Daniel Moyer

Learning, taking into account full distribution of the data, referred to as generative, is not feasible with deep neural networks (DNNs) because they model only the conditional distribution of the outputs given the inputs. Current solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Boris Flach , Alexander Shekhovtsov , Ondrej Fikar

State of the art deep generative networks are capable of producing images with such incredible realism that they can be suspected of memorizing training images. It is why it is not uncommon to include visualizations of training set nearest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Ryan Webster , Julien Rabin , Loic Simon , Frederic Jurie

Composition-the ability to generate myriad variations from finite means-is believed to underlie powerful generalization. However, compositional generalization remains a key challenge for deep learning. A widely held assumption is that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qiyao Liang , Daoyuan Qian , Liu Ziyin , Ila Fiete

We systematically study a wide variety of generative models spanning semantically-diverse image datasets to understand and improve the feature extractors and metrics used to evaluate them. Using best practices in psychophysics, we measure…

Memory units have been widely used to enrich the capabilities of deep networks on capturing long-term dependencies in reasoning and prediction tasks, but little investigation exists on deep generative models (DGMs) which are good at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Deep neural network approaches to inverse imaging problems have produced impressive results in the last few years. In this paper, we consider the use of generative models in a variational regularisation approach to inverse problems. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Margaret Duff , Neill D. F. Campbell , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

Recent efforts at explaining the interplay of memorization and generalization in deep overparametrized networks have posited that neural networks $\textit{memorize}$ "hard" examples in the final few layers of the model. Memorization refers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Pratyush Maini , Michael C. Mozer , Hanie Sedghi , Zachary C. Lipton , J. Zico Kolter , Chiyuan Zhang

Generalization of deep neural networks remains one of the main open problems in machine learning. Previous theoretical works focused on deriving tight bounds of model complexity, while empirical works revealed that neural networks exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 James Wang , Cheng-Lin Yang