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# Uniform convergence may be unable to explain generalization in deep learning

@inproceedings{Nagarajan2019UniformCM,
title={Uniform convergence may be unable to explain generalization in deep learning},
author={Vaishnavh Nagarajan and J. Zico Kolter},
booktitle={NeurIPS},
year={2019}
}
• Published in NeurIPS 13 February 2019
• Computer Science
Aimed at explaining the surprisingly good generalization behavior of overparameterized deep networks, recent works have developed a variety of generalization bounds for deep learning, all based on the fundamental learning-theoretic technique of uniform convergence. While it is well-known that many of these existing bounds are numerically large, through numerous experiments, we bring to light a more concerning aspect of these bounds: in practice, these bounds can {\em increase} with the training…
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