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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization

   Zhang, Bengio, Hardt, Recht and Vinyals · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Specifically, our experiments establish that state-of-the-art convolutional networks for image classification trained with stochastic gradient methods easily fit a random labeling of the training data.”
   2. Unchecked“This phenomenon is qualitatively unaffected by explicit regularization, and occurs even if we replace the true images by completely unstructured random noise.”

2. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Surprises in high-dimensional ridgeless least squares interpolation

   Hastie, A, Rosset and Tibshirani · The Annals of Statistics · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We recover—in a precise quantitative way—several phenomena that have been observed in large-scale neural networks and kernel machines, including the “double descent” behavior of the prediction risk, and the potential benefits of overparametrization.”