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| author | Tiwary, Nalin Aananth, Siddarth |
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| contents | Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) is an optimization technique designed to improve generalization by favoring flatter loss minima. To achieve this, SAM optimizes a modified objective that penalizes sharpness, using computationally efficient approximations. Interestingly, we find that more precise approximations of the proposed SAM objective degrade generalization performance, suggesting that the generalization benefits of SAM are rooted in these approximations rather than in the original intended mechanism. This highlights a gap in our understanding of SAM's effectiveness and calls for further investigation into the role of approximations in optimization. |
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| spellingShingle | 1st-Order Magic: Analysis of Sharpness-Aware Minimization Tiwary, Nalin Aananth, Siddarth Machine Learning Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) is an optimization technique designed to improve generalization by favoring flatter loss minima. To achieve this, SAM optimizes a modified objective that penalizes sharpness, using computationally efficient approximations. Interestingly, we find that more precise approximations of the proposed SAM objective degrade generalization performance, suggesting that the generalization benefits of SAM are rooted in these approximations rather than in the original intended mechanism. This highlights a gap in our understanding of SAM's effectiveness and calls for further investigation into the role of approximations in optimization. |
| title | 1st-Order Magic: Analysis of Sharpness-Aware Minimization |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01714 |