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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Control of Overfitting with Physics.

Sergei V Kozyrev, Ilya A Lopatin, Alexander N Pechen

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sergei V KozyrevSteklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina St. 8, Moscow 119991, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-5597-5556
Ilya A LopatinSteklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina St. 8, Moscow 119991, Russia.ORCID 0009-0001-8790-0540
Alexander N PechenSteklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina St. 8, Moscow 119991, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-8290-8300

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Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation 075-15-2024-529
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Abstract

While there are many works on the applications of machine learning, not so many of them are trying to understand the theoretical justifications to explain their efficiency. In this work, overfitting control (or generalization property) in machine learning is explained using analogies from physics and biology. For stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics, we show that the Eyring formula of kinetic theory allows to control overfitting in the algorithmic stability approach-when wide minima of the risk function with low free energy correspond to low overfitting. For the generative adversarial network (GAN) model, we establish an analogy between GAN and the predator-prey model in biology. An application of this analogy allows us to explain the selection of wide likelihood maxima and ab overfitting reduction for GANs.

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branching random processEyring formulafree energygenerative adversarial networkoverfitting controlstochastic gradient descent

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PMID39766719
PMCPMC11675240

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