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Re:Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020) by WithinReason on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:04AM (#40390050)
Regularisation should not be done with the optimiser but with the loss function and the architecture.
Re:Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020) by redox99 on Friday May 17, 2024 @12:44PM (#40391756)
Regularization only helps you so much.
Re:Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020) by staunton on Friday May 17, 2024 @02:43PM (#40393007)
Maybe it should not be done but the large neutral networks this decade absolutely rely on this. A network at the global minimum of any of the (regularized) loss functions that are used these days would be waaay overfitted.
Re:Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020) by uoaei on Friday May 17, 2024 @03:44PM (#40393548)
The entire reason SGD works is because the stochastic nature of updates on minibatches is an implicit regularizer. This one perspective built the foundations for all of modern machine learning.

I completely agree that the most effective regularization is inductive bias in the architecture. But bang for buck, given all the memory/compute savings it accomplishes, SGD is the exemplar of implicit regularization techniques.