New research reveals a duality between neural network weights and neuron activities that enables a geometric decomposition of the generalization gap. The framework provides a way to interpret the effects of regularization schemes such as stochastic gradient descent and dropout on generalization — and to improve upon these methods.
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Gromov, A. Deconstructing the generalization gap. Nat Mach Intell 5, 1340–1341 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00766-7
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