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Edge of Stability Selectively Shapes Learning Across the Data Distribution

arXiv:2606. 04212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing analyses of the edge of stability (EoS) treat it as a global property of optimization.

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On the Implicit Flatness Bias of Sharpness-Aware Minimization: A Linear Stability Analysis with Quantitative Hyperparameter Bounds

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) improves generalization by seeking parameters whose loss is robust to local adversarial perturbations, but the quantitative mechanism underlying its implicit bias toward flat minima remains unclear. In particular, the perturbation radius $ρ$ is typically treated as an isolated tuning parameter, despite defining the neighborhood in which SAM measures sharpness.