arXiv:2505. 22578v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The optimization of neural networks under weight decay remains poorly understood from a theoretical standpoint.
By Etienne Boursier, Matthew Bowditch, Matthias Englert, Ranko Lazic
arXiv:2502. 11152v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The optimization foundations of deep linear networks have recently received significant attention.
By Po Chen, Rujun Jiang, Peng Wang
arXiv:2606. 05863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grokking suggests that fitting the training data and learning a simple underlying rule may occur on different time scales.
By Hu Tan, Kuo Gai, Shihua Zhang
arXiv:2607. 21005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most explanations of training instability focus on \emph{learning-rate criticality}, typically characterized by the Edge of Stability, beyond which optimization becomes unstable.
By Xiaolong Li, Zhangchen Zhou, Zhi-Qin John Xu
arXiv:2607. 05017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The performance of deep learning models crucially depends on the settings of hyperparameters like learning rate, initialization scale, and weight decay.
By Gage DeZoort, Boris Hanin
arXiv:2601. 16884v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study multigrade deep learning (MGDL) as a principled framework for structured error refinement in deep neural networks.
By Shijun Zhang, Zuowei Shen, Yuesheng Xu
arXiv:2607. 03613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the implicit bias of noisy stochastic gradient descent in training wide two-layer ReLU networks for multivariate regression.
By Shuang Liang, Tom Jacobs, Guido Mont\'ufar
arXiv:2606. 28242v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how performance scales jointly with model size and data is a central problem in modern machine learning.
By Julius Girardin, Emanuele Troiani, Yizhou Xu, Vittorio Erba, Florent Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborov\'a
arXiv:2602. 19799v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite recent algorithmic advances, we still lack principled ways to leverage the well-documented rescaling symmetries in ReLU neural network parameters.
By Arthur Lebeurrier, Titouan Vayer, R\'emi Gribonval
arXiv:2606. 06772v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Characterizing the optimization dynamics and statistical performance of over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) remains a central challenge in understanding the remarkable success of deep learning.
By Junyu Zhou, Puyu Wang, Dennis Wagner, Yunwen Lei, Marius Kloft, Yiming Ying
arXiv:2606. 06772v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the generalization performance of over-parameterized neural networks has become a central topic in deep learning theory.
By Junyu Zhou, Puyu Wang, Yunwen Lei, Marius Kloft, Yiming Ying
arXiv:2606. 06764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress has been made in understanding the statistical generalization performance of gradient descent methods for overparameterized neural networks within the neural tangent kernel (NTK) regime.
By Junyu Zhou, Puyu Wang, Yunwen Lei, Yiming Ying, Ding-Xuan Zhou