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1. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Scaling description of generalization with number of parameters in deep learning

   Geiger, Jacot, Spigler et al. · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2020

   The paper explains why test error keeps falling as networks gain parameters, using the Neural Tangent Kernel, and tests its predictions on MNIST and CIFAR images.

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   1. UncheckedUsing the Neural Tangent Kernel, the paper shows that random initialisation makes a neural net's output fluctuate around its average by an amount scaling as N^(-1/4).“We rely on the so-called Neural Tangent Kernel, which connects large neural nets to kernel methods, to show that the initialization causes finite-size random fluctuations $\|f_{N}-\bar{f}_{N}\|\sim N^{-1/4}$ of the neural net output function $f_{N}$ around its expectation $\bar{f}_{N}$.”