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most citedWhy Does Sharpness-Aware Minimization Generalize Better Than SGD?

4 citations · 10 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.DS2026

Lower Bounds for Parallel Diffusion Sampling

Yiwen Kou, Yimeng Wang

Standard diffusion samplers generate samples through repeated evaluations of a learned score function. Parallel sampling methods seek to accelerate generation by trading additional…

cs.AI2026

Continual Graph Memory for Mathematical Research Agents

Junyi Zhang, Jinxi Yu, Eric Hanchen Jiang +14

Using frontier agent harnesses to tackle mathematical research problems has emerged as an effective means of advancing mathematics. However, solving frontier problems in mathematic…

cs.LG2025

Smoothed Agnostic Learning of Halfspaces over the Hypercube

Yiwen Kou, Raghu Meka

Agnostic learning of Boolean halfspaces is a fundamental problem in computational learning theory, but it is known to be computationally hard even for weak learning. Recent work [C…

cs.LG2024

Matching the Statistical Query Lower Bound for -Sparse Parity Problems with Sign Stochastic Gradient Descent

Yiwen Kou, Zixiang Chen, Quanquan Gu +1

The -sparse parity problem is a classical problem in computational complexity and algorithmic theory, serving as a key benchmark for understanding computational classes. In this…

cs.LG2024

Guided Discrete Diffusion for Electronic Health Record Generation

Jun Han, Zixiang Chen, Yongqian Li +4

Electronic health records (EHRs) are a pivotal data source that enables numerous applications in computational medicine, e.g., disease progression prediction, clinical trial design…

cs.LG2023

Fast Sampling via Discrete Non-Markov Diffusion Models with Predetermined Transition Time

Zixiang Chen, Huizhuo Yuan, Yongqian Li +3

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality data generation. Despite their success in discrete spaces, such as text generation tasks, the acceleration…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent for Two-layer ReLU and Leaky ReLU Networks on Nearly-orthogonal Data

Yiwen Kou, Zixiang Chen, Quanquan Gu

The implicit bias towards solutions with favorable properties is believed to be a key reason why neural networks trained by gradient-based optimization can generalize well. While t…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Why Does Sharpness-Aware Minimization Generalize Better Than SGD?

Zixiang Chen, Junkai Zhang, Yiwen Kou +3

The challenge of overfitting, in which the model memorizes the training data and fails to generalize to test data, has become increasingly significant in the training of large neur…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Benign Overfitting for Two-layer ReLU Convolutional Neural Networks

Yiwen Kou, Zixiang Chen, Yuanzhou Chen +1

Modern deep learning models with great expressive power can be trained to overfit the training data but still generalize well. This phenomenon is referred to as \textit{benign over…