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Fine-Grained Analysis of Optimization and Generalization for Overparameterized Two-Layer Neural Networks
Sanjeev Arora · Simon Du · Wei Hu · Zhiyuan Li · Ruosong Wang

Tue Jun 11 02:35 PM -- 02:40 PM (PDT) @ Grand Ballroom
in Deep Learning Theory »

Recent works have cast some light on the mystery of why deep nets fit any data and generalize despite being very overparametrized. This paper analyzes training and generalization for a simple 2-layer ReLU net with random initialization, and provides the following improvements over recent works:

(i) Using a tighter characterization of training speed than recent papers, an explanation for why training a neural net with random labels leads to slower training, as originally observed in [Zhang et al. ICLR'17].

(ii) Generalization bound independent of network size, using a data-dependent complexity measure. Our measure distinguishes clearly between random labels and true labels on MNIST and CIFAR, as shown by experiments. Moreover, recent papers require sample complexity to increase (slowly) with the size, while our sample complexity is completely independent of the network size.

(iii) Learnability of a broad class of smooth functions by 2-layer ReLU nets trained via gradient descent.

The key idea is to track dynamics of training and generalization via properties of a related kernel.

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Author Information

Sanjeev Arora ( Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study)
Simon Du (Carnegie Mellon University)
Wei Hu (Princeton University)
Zhiyuan Li (Princeton University)
Ruosong Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)

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