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most citedMore is Better in Modern Machine Learning: when Infinite Overparameterization is Optimal and Overfitting is Obligatory

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cs.LG2026

Muon learns balanced solutions in matrix factorization without slow saddle-to-saddle dynamics

Mark Rhee, Jamie Simon, Dhruva Karkada

Matrix factorization (i.e., problems of the form ) is a minimal learning problem that ex…

stat.ML2026

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

Jamie Simon, Daniel Kunin, Alexander Atanasov +11

In this paper, we make the case that a scientific theory of deep learning is emerging. By this we mean a theory which characterizes important properties and statistics of the train…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Symmetry in language statistics shapes the geometry of model representations

Dhruva Karkada, Daniel J. Korchinski, Andres Nava +2

The internal representations learned by language models consistently exhibit striking geometric structure: calendar months organize into a circle, historical years form a smooth on…

cs.LG2025

Predicting kernel regression learning curves from only raw data statistics

Dhruva Karkada, Joseph Turnbull, Yuxi Liu +1

We study kernel regression with common rotation-invariant kernels on real datasets including CIFAR-5m, SVHN, and ImageNet. We give a theoretical framework that predicts learning cu…

cs.LG2025

Alternating Gradient Flows: A Theory of Feature Learning in Two-layer Neural Networks

Daniel Kunin, Giovanni Luca Marchetti, Feng Chen +5

What features neural networks learn, and how, remains an open question. In this paper, we introduce Alternating Gradient Flows (AGF), an algorithmic framework that describes the dy…

cs.CL2025

On the Emergence of Linear Analogies in Word Embeddings

Daniel J. Korchinski, Dhruva Karkada, Yasaman Bahri +1

Models such as Word2Vec and GloVe construct word embeddings based on the co-occurrence probability of words and in text corpora. The resulting vectors not on…

cs.LG2025

Closed-Form Training Dynamics Reveal Learned Features and Linear Structure in Word2Vec-like Models

Dhruva Karkada, James B. Simon, Yasaman Bahri +1

Self-supervised word embedding algorithms such as word2vec provide a minimal setting for studying representation learning in language modeling. We examine the quartic Taylor approx…

cs.LG2024

The lazy (NTK) and rich (P) regimes: a gentle tutorial

Dhruva Karkada

A central theme of the modern machine learning paradigm is that larger neural networks achieve better performance on a variety of metrics. Theoretical analyses of these overparamet…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

More is Better in Modern Machine Learning: when Infinite Overparameterization is Optimal and Overfitting is Obligatory

James B. Simon, Dhruva Karkada, Nikhil Ghosh +1

In our era of enormous neural networks, empirical progress has been driven by the philosophy that more is better. Recent deep learning practice has found repeatedly that larger mod…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

The Eigenlearning Framework: A Conservation Law Perspective on Kernel Regression and Wide Neural Networks

James B. Simon, Madeline Dickens, Dhruva Karkada +1

We derive simple closed-form estimates for the test risk and other generalization metrics of kernel ridge regression (KRR). Relative to prior work, our derivations are greatly simp…