Applying statistical learning theory to deep learning

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Autori principali: Gerbelot, Cédric, Karagulyan, Avetik, Karp, Stefani, Ravichandran, Kavya, Stern, Menachem, Srebro, Nathan
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author Gerbelot, Cédric
Karagulyan, Avetik
Karp, Stefani
Ravichandran, Kavya
Stern, Menachem
Srebro, Nathan
author_facet Gerbelot, Cédric
Karagulyan, Avetik
Karp, Stefani
Ravichandran, Kavya
Stern, Menachem
Srebro, Nathan
contents Although statistical learning theory provides a robust framework to understand supervised learning, many theoretical aspects of deep learning remain unclear, in particular how different architectures may lead to inductive bias when trained using gradient based methods. The goal of these lectures is to provide an overview of some of the main questions that arise when attempting to understand deep learning from a learning theory perspective. After a brief reminder on statistical learning theory and stochastic optimization, we discuss implicit bias in the context of benign overfitting. We then move to a general description of the mirror descent algorithm, showing how we may go back and forth between a parameter space and the corresponding function space for a given learning problem, as well as how the geometry of the learning problem may be represented by a metric tensor. Building on this framework, we provide a detailed study of the implicit bias of gradient descent on linear diagonal networks for various regression tasks, showing how the loss function, scale of parameters at initialization and depth of the network may lead to various forms of implicit bias, in particular transitioning between kernel or feature learning.
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spellingShingle Applying statistical learning theory to deep learning
Gerbelot, Cédric
Karagulyan, Avetik
Karp, Stefani
Ravichandran, Kavya
Stern, Menachem
Srebro, Nathan
Machine Learning
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Although statistical learning theory provides a robust framework to understand supervised learning, many theoretical aspects of deep learning remain unclear, in particular how different architectures may lead to inductive bias when trained using gradient based methods. The goal of these lectures is to provide an overview of some of the main questions that arise when attempting to understand deep learning from a learning theory perspective. After a brief reminder on statistical learning theory and stochastic optimization, we discuss implicit bias in the context of benign overfitting. We then move to a general description of the mirror descent algorithm, showing how we may go back and forth between a parameter space and the corresponding function space for a given learning problem, as well as how the geometry of the learning problem may be represented by a metric tensor. Building on this framework, we provide a detailed study of the implicit bias of gradient descent on linear diagonal networks for various regression tasks, showing how the loss function, scale of parameters at initialization and depth of the network may lead to various forms of implicit bias, in particular transitioning between kernel or feature learning.
title Applying statistical learning theory to deep learning
topic Machine Learning
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15404