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most citedA Convergence Theory for Deep Learning via Over-Parameterization

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cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Faster Robust Tensor Power Method for Arbitrary Order

Yichuan Deng, Zhao Song, Junze Yin

Tensor decomposition is a fundamental method used in various areas to deal with high-dimensional data. \emph{Tensor power method} (TPM) is one of the widely-used techniques in the…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

An Over-parameterized Exponential Regression

Yeqi Gao, Sridhar Mahadevan, Zhao Song

Over the past few years, there has been a significant amount of research focused on studying the ReLU activation function, with the aim of achieving neural network convergence thro…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Solving Regularized Exp, Cosh and Sinh Regression Problems

Zhihang Li, Zhao Song, Tianyi Zhou

In modern machine learning, attention computation is a fundamental task for training large language models such as Transformer, GPT-4 and ChatGPT. In this work, we study exponentia…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Low Rank Matrix Completion via Robust Alternating Minimization in Nearly Linear Time

Yuzhou Gu, Zhao Song, Junze Yin +1

Given a matrix , the low rank matrix completion problem asks us to find a rank- approximation of as for …

cs.LG2020

Training (Overparametrized) Neural Networks in Near-Linear Time

Jan van den Brand, Binghui Peng, Zhao Song +1

The slow convergence rate and pathological curvature issues of first-order gradient methods for training deep neural networks, initiated an ongoing effort for developing faster $\m…

cs.LG2018★ 688 cited

A Convergence Theory for Deep Learning via Over-Parameterization

Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Zhao Song

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated dominating performance in many fields; since AlexNet, networks used in practice are going wider and deeper. On the theoretical side, a…

cs.LG2018★ 111 cited

On the Convergence Rate of Training Recurrent Neural Networks

Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Zhao Song

How can local-search methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) avoid bad local minima in training multi-layer neural networks? Why can they fit random labels even given non…

cs.LG2018★ 3 cited

Nonlinear Inductive Matrix Completion based on One-layer Neural Networks

Kai Zhong, Zhao Song, Prateek Jain +1

The goal of a recommendation system is to predict the interest of a user in a given item by exploiting the existing set of ratings as well as certain user/item features. A standard…

cs.LG2018★ 32 cited

Learning Long Term Dependencies via Fourier Recurrent Units

Jiong Zhang, Yibo Lin, Zhao Song +1

It is a known fact that training recurrent neural networks for tasks that have long term dependencies is challenging. One of the main reasons is the vanishing or exploding gradient…

cs.LG2017★ 39 cited

Learning Non-overlapping Convolutional Neural Networks with Multiple Kernels

Kai Zhong, Zhao Song, Inderjit S. Dhillon

In this paper, we consider parameter recovery for non-overlapping convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with multiple kernels. We show that when the inputs follow Gaussian distribut…

cs.LG2017★ 128 cited

Recovery Guarantees for One-hidden-layer Neural Networks

Kai Zhong, Zhao Song, Prateek Jain +2

In this paper, we consider regression problems with one-hidden-layer neural networks (1NNs). We distill some properties of activation functions that lead to $\mathit{local~strong~c…