arXiv:2301. 06308v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) is a training method that seeks to find flat minima in deep learning, resulting in state-of-the-art performance across various domains.
By Hoki Kim, Jinseong Park, Yujin Choi, Jaewook Lee
arXiv:2608. 01833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Grokking is a striking phenomenon in neural network training, where a model can undergo a prolonged period of pure memorization before abrupt generalization.
By Lai Shun Chan, Xiaotian Zhang, Yue Shang, Ge Zhang, Entao Yang
arXiv:2606. 04476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we study the gradient descent dynamics for jointly training both layers of a one-hidden-layer ReLU network to fit a linear target function.
By Berk Tinaz, Changzhi Xie, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
arXiv:2606. 30930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern deep learning has been shown to operate at the edge of stability, routinely using learning rates far larger than those justified by classical optimization theory.
By Konstantinos Emmanouilidis, Lachlan MacDonald, Salma Tarmoun, Rene Vidal
arXiv:2606. 06722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The training of neural networks often entails objective functions that are not globally $L$-smooth.
By Leonardo Galli, Curtis Fox, Wiebke Bartolomaeus, Mark Schmidt, Holger Rauhut
arXiv:2606. 18080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient descent in deep learning may operate at the edge of stability (EoS), a regime in which the largest eigenvalue of the loss Hessian hovers near the stability threshold $2/\eta$, where $\eta$ is the learning rate.
By Pierre Marion
arXiv:2606. 31282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern deep neural networks often contain far more parameters than needed to fit their training data, yet they achieve impressive generalization.
By Ari Pakman, Lior Kreimer, Yakir Berchenko
arXiv:2608. 06597v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A scientific theory of deep learning, comprising learning dynamics and statistical properties of learned models, is rapidly gaining attention.
By Bj\"orn Ladewig, Ibrahim Talha Ersoy, Karoline Wiesner
arXiv:2605. 29547v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning optimization relies heavily on the assumption of smooth loss landscapes, a condition systematically violated by modern architectures due to non-smooth components such as ReLU activations and quantization operators.
By Ruoran Xu, Borong She, Xiaobo Jin, Qiufeng Wang
arXiv:2607. 14233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have had a broad research impact in modeling domains governed by partial differential equations (PDE).
By Nilay Anurag, Shital Adhikari, Taniya Kapoor, Nikhil Muralidhar
arXiv:2607. 12360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The cooldown phase of a warmup-stable-decay (WSD) learning-rate schedule, now a default in large-model pretraining, lowers the final training loss in some settings and does nothing in others.
By Subham Singh, Ashutosh Mishra, Subha Raut
arXiv:2511. 19716v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) often slows in the late stage of training due to anisotropic curvature and gradient noise.
By Mitchell Scott, Tianshi Xu, Ziyuan Tang, Alexandra Pichette-Emmons, Qiang Ye, Yousef Saad, Yuanzhe Xi