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most citedLinear Stability Hypothesis and Rank Stratification for Nonlinear Models

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cs.LG2026

Gradient Flow Dynamics and Implicit Bias of Diagonal Linear Networks under Infinitesimal Initialization

Jiajie Zhao, Jianxing Wang, Junjie Yang +2

We study the gradient flow dynamics of diagonal linear networks for regression tasks under infinitesimal initialization. Extending Theorem 1 from Pesme & Flammarion (2023), we gene…

cs.LG2026

Towards Understanding Adam Convergence on Highly Degenerate Polynomials

Zhiwei Bai, Jiajie Zhao, Zhangchen Zhou +2

Adam is a widely used optimization algorithm in deep learning, yet the specific class of objective functions where it exhibits inherent advantages remains underexplored. Unlike pri…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive Preconditioners Trigger Loss Spikes in Adam

Zhiwei Bai, Zhangchen Zhou, Jiajie Zhao +6

Loss spikes commonly emerge during neural network training with the Adam optimizer across diverse architectures and scales, yet their underlying mechanism remains elusive. While pr…

cs.LG2025

Scalable Complexity Control Facilitates Reasoning Ability of LLMs

Liangkai Hang, Junjie Yao, Zhiwei Bai +17

The reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) has been rapidly advancing in recent years, attracting interest in more fundamental approaches that can reliably enhance their…

cs.LG2024

Local Linear Recovery Guarantee of Deep Neural Networks at Overparameterization

Yaoyu Zhang, Leyang Zhang, Zhongwang Zhang +1

Determining whether deep neural network (DNN) models can reliably recover target functions at overparameterization is a critical yet complex issue in the theory of deep learning. T…

cs.LG2024

Disentangle Sample Size and Initialization Effect on Perfect Generalization for Single-Neuron Target

Jiajie Zhao, Zhiwei Bai, Yaoyu Zhang

Overparameterized models like deep neural networks have the intriguing ability to recover target functions with fewer sampled data points than parameters (see arXiv:2307.08921). To…

cs.LG2024

Connectivity Shapes Implicit Regularization in Matrix Factorization Models for Matrix Completion

Zhiwei Bai, Jiajie Zhao, Yaoyu Zhang

Matrix factorization models have been extensively studied as a valuable test-bed for understanding the implicit biases of overparameterized models. Although both low nuclear norm a…

cs.LG2023

Optimistic Estimate Uncovers the Potential of Nonlinear Models

Yaoyu Zhang, Zhongwang Zhang, Leyang Zhang +3

We propose an optimistic estimate to evaluate the best possible fitting performance of nonlinear models. It yields an optimistic sample size that quantifies the smallest possible s…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Linear Stability Hypothesis and Rank Stratification for Nonlinear Models

Yaoyu Zhang, Zhongwang Zhang, Leyang Zhang +3

Models with nonlinear architectures/parameterizations such as deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known for their mysteriously good generalization performance at overparameterizat…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Embedding Principle in Depth for the Loss Landscape Analysis of Deep Neural Networks

Zhiwei Bai, Tao Luo, Zhi-Qin John Xu +1

Understanding the relation between deep and shallow neural networks is extremely important for the theoretical study of deep learning. In this work, we discover an embedding princi…