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most citedMultiplicative noise and heavy tails in stochastic optimization

32 citations · 52 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

stat.ML2026

Why Heavy-Tailed Weight Spectra Predict Model Quality

Joseph Wilson, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson +3

A solid understanding of the predictive success of deep neural networks (DNNs) remains elusive. For example, while many data-dependent metrics exist that seek to predict model qual…

cs.LG2026

Benign Loss Landscapes Can Coexist with Worst-Case Hardness

Zach Furman, Stephan Wäldchen, Yangda Bei +1

Deep neural networks are expressive enough to contain worst-case targets that can be evaluated in polynomial time but cannot be learned in polynomial time by gradient descent. For…

stat.ME2026

SCAN: Sequentially Detecting Change-points via Adaptive Nonparametric Inference

Ashoka Prabashwara, Patricia Menéndez, Liam Hodgkinson +1

Modern time series are often long, serially dependent, and non-stationary. Existing change-point methods either target specific changes or become computationally intensive when usi…

stat.ML2026

Is the Last Layer Sufficient for Uncertainty Quantification?

Joseph Wilson, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson +1

Epistemic uncertainty quantification (UQ) for deep neural networks (DNNs) is a requirement for safe adoption of AI in mission-critical settings. Several leading methods for UQ line…

stat.ML2026

Free Decompression with Algebraic Spectral Curves

Siavash Ameli, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson +1

Tools from random matrix theory have become central to deep learning theory, using spectral information to provide mechanisms for modeling generalization, robustness, scaling, and…

stat.ML2025

Uncertainty-Aware Diagnostics for Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Mara Daniels, Liam Hodgkinson, Michael Mahoney

Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) integrates prior physical information, often in the form of differential equation constraints, into the process of fitting machine learning…