arXiv:2605. 10775v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A surprising phenomenon in the training of neural networks is the ability of gradient descent to find global minimizers of the training loss despite its non-convexity.
By Romain Petit, Clarice Poon, Gabriel Peyr\'e
arXiv:2606. 07120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoencoders (AEs) learn low-dimensional representations by mapping data into a latent space while minimizing reconstruction error.
By Santanu Das, Ramyak Bilas, Pascal Esser, Satyaki Mukherjee
arXiv:2511. 21466v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study Consensus-Based Optimization (CBO) for two-layer neural network training.
By William De Deyn, Michael Herty, Giovanni Samaey
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:2607. 05735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infinite-width limits are a standard way to reason about neural networks, but it is not automatic that the limiting learner has the same complexity-theoretic inductive bias as large finite networks.
By Dmitry Vaintrob, Kaarel H\"anni
The paper presents a near-complete, nonasymptotic generalization theory for multilayer neural networks using path regularization, applicable to broad Lipschitz loss functions without requiring bounded loss or extreme network hyperparameters. It provides an explicit upper bound that addresses approximation rates in generalized Barron spaces and demonstrates the double descent phenomenon for ReLU networks. The authors claim near-minimax optimality for regression problems and plan to establish matching lower bounds in future work.
By Hao Yu
arXiv:2401. 04013v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep learning models, such as wide neural networks, can be conceptualized as nonlinear dynamical physical systems characterized by a multitude of interacting degrees of freedom.
By Ori Shem-Ur, Yaron Oz
The paper investigates gradient descent dynamics in the Edge of Stability regime, where a large learning rate causes persistent oscillations linked to improved generalization. It introduces a tractable continuous‑time mean–fluctuation model that couples the window‑averaged trajectory with its fluctuation covariance, derives this model rigorously from a sharp‑valley framework, and analyzes its stationary states and linear stability. The authors also extend the model to wide two‑layer networks, deriving a Wasserstein‑2 gradient flow for weights and fluctuations, proving well‑posedness, a mean‑field limit, and conditional convergence results, with numerical experiments illustrating the predictions and finite‑time limitations.
By Antonin Chodron de Courcel
arXiv:2311. 15365v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study an idealized training process for deep neural networks in a continuous-depth, mean-field model in which each layer is parameterized by a probability measure on a Euclidean parameter space.
By Noboru Isobe
arXiv:2608. 08350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The initialisation of deep neural networks determines whether information and gradients can propagate across depth, yet a unified theory connecting these properties to learning dynamics remains elusive.
By Andrea Combette, Nelly Pustelnik, Antoine Venaille
arXiv:2609.07755v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Understanding generalization remains a central challenge in machine learning because it requires jointly considering data, architecture, and training d...
By Yuqing Wang, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Mikhail Belkin
arXiv:2608. 11479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We establish convergence guarantees of gradient descent for general feedforward neural networks of arbitrary width or depth, with no special requirements on the initialization or dataset.
By Siqiao Mu, Diego Klabjan