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# Locality defeats the curse of dimensionality in convolutional teacher-student scenarios

@article{Favero2021LocalityDT,
title={Locality defeats the curse of dimensionality in convolutional teacher-student scenarios},
author={Alessandro Favero and F. Cagnetta and M. Wyart},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2106.08619}
}
• Published 2021
• Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics
• ArXiv
Convolutional neural networks perform a local and translationally-invariant treatment of the data: quantifying which of these two aspects is central to their success remains a challenge. We study this problem within a teacher-student framework for kernel regression, using ‘convolutional’ kernels inspired by the neural tangent kernel of simple convolutional architectures of given filter size. Using heuristic methods from physics, we find in the ridgeless case that locality is key in determining… Expand
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