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most citedStrength of Minibatch Noise in SGD

8 citations · 23 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Noise Balance and Stationary Distribution of Stochastic Gradient Descent

Liu Ziyin, Hongchao Li, Masahito Ueda

The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm is the algorithm we use to train neural networks. However, it remains poorly understood how the SGD navigates the highly nonlinear a…

physics.comp-ph2023

Pink-noise dynamics in an evolutionary game on a regular graph

Yuki Sakamoto, Masahito Ueda

We consider an iterated multiplayer prisoner's dilemma game on a square lattice and regular graphs based on the pairwise-Fermi update rule, and obtain heat-maps of the fraction of…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Type-II Saddles and Probabilistic Stability of Stochastic Gradient Descent

Liu Ziyin, Botao Li, Tomer Galanti +1

Characterizing and understanding the dynamics of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) around saddle points remains an open problem. We first show that saddle points in neural networks…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

What shapes the loss landscape of self-supervised learning?

Liu Ziyin, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Masahito Ueda +1

Prevention of complete and dimensional collapse of representations has recently become a design principle for self-supervised learning (SSL). However, questions remain in our theor…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Exact Phase Transitions in Deep Learning

Liu Ziyin, Masahito Ueda

This work reports deep-learning-unique first-order and second-order phase transitions, whose phenomenology closely follows that in statistical physics. In particular, we prove that…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

Universal Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation in Non-Equilibrium Dynamics

Liu Ziyin, Masahito Ueda

We derive a universal thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) that applies to an arbitrary observable in a general Markovian system. The generality of our result allows us to make…

cs.LG2022

Interplay between depth of neural networks and locality of target functions

Takashi Mori, Masahito Ueda

It has been recognized that heavily overparameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) exhibit surprisingly good generalization performance in various machine-learning tasks. Although b…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Stochastic Neural Networks with Infinite Width are Deterministic

Liu Ziyin, Hanlin Zhang, Xiangming Meng +3

This work theoretically studies stochastic neural networks, a main type of neural network in use. We prove that as the width of an optimized stochastic neural network tends to infi…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

SGD with a Constant Large Learning Rate Can Converge to Local Maxima

Liu Ziyin, Botao Li, James B. Simon +1

Previous works on stochastic gradient descent (SGD) often focus on its success. In this work, we construct worst-case optimization problems illustrating that, when not in the regim…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Power-law escape rate of SGD

Takashi Mori, Liu Ziyin, Kangqiao Liu +1

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) undergoes complicated multiplicative noise for the mean-square loss. We use this property of SGD noise to derive a stochastic differential equatio…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

Strength of Minibatch Noise in SGD

Liu Ziyin, Kangqiao Liu, Takashi Mori +1

The noise in stochastic gradient descent (SGD), caused by minibatch sampling, is poorly understood despite its practical importance in deep learning. This work presents the first s…

stat.ML2020★ 3 cited

Noise and Fluctuation of Finite Learning Rate Stochastic Gradient Descent

Kangqiao Liu, Liu Ziyin, Masahito Ueda

In the vanishing learning rate regime, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is now relatively well understood. In this work, we propose to study the basic properties of SGD and its va…