Re:Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020)
by uoaei on Friday May 17, 2024 @03:44PM
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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.
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.