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# One-pass Stochastic Gradient Descent in overparametrized two-layer neural networks

@article{Zhu2021OnepassSG,
title={One-pass Stochastic Gradient Descent in overparametrized two-layer neural networks},
author={Hanjing Zhu and Jiaming Xu},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2105.00262}
}
• Published 1 May 2021
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
There has been a recent surge of interest in understanding the convergence of gradient descent (GD) and stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in overparameterized neural networks. Most previous work assumes that the training data is provided a priori in a batch, while less attention has been paid to the important setting where the training data arrives in a stream. In this paper, we study the streaming data setup and show that with overparamterization and random initialization, the prediction error…

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