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Scaling description of generalization with number of parameters in deep learning | | Mario Geiger
; Arthur Jacot
; Stefano Spigler
; Franck Gabriel
; Levent Sagun
; Stéphane d'Ascoli
; Giulio Biroli
; Clément Hongler
; Matthieu Wyart
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6 Jan 2019 | | Abstract: | We provide a description for the evolution of the generalization performance
of fixed-depth fully-connected deep neural networks, as a function of their
number of parameters $N$. In the setup where the number of data points is
larger than the input dimension, as $N$ gets large, we observe that increasing
$N$ at fixed depth reduces the fluctuations of the output function $f_N$
induced by initial conditions, with $|!|f_N-{ar f}_N|!|sim N^{-1/4}$ where
${ar f}_N$ denotes an average over initial conditions. We explain this
asymptotic behavior in terms of the fluctuations of the so-called Neural
Tangent Kernel that controls the dynamics of the output function. For the task
of classification, we predict these fluctuations to increase the true test
error $epsilon$ as $epsilon_{N}-epsilon_{infty}sim N^{-1/2} + mathcal{O}(
N^{-3/4})$. This prediction is consistent with our empirical results on the
MNIST dataset and it explains in a concrete case the puzzling observation that
the predictive power of deep networks improves as the number of fitting
parameters grows. This asymptotic description breaks down at a so-called
jamming transition which takes place at a critical $N=N^*$, below which the
training error is non-zero. In the absence of regularization, we observe an
apparent divergence $|!|f_N|!|sim (N-N^*)^{-alpha}$ and provide a simple
argument suggesting $alpha=1$, consistent with empirical observations. This
result leads to a plausible explanation for the cusp in test error known to
occur at $N^*$. Overall, our analysis suggests that once models are averaged,
the optimal model complexity is reached just beyond the point where the data
can be perfectly fitted, a result of practical importance that needs to be
tested in a wide range of architectures and data set. | | Source: | arXiv, 1901.1608 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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