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