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Grant Rotskoff

4 accepted papers

2020

A Dynamical Central Limit Theorem for Shallow Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2020poster

Recent theoretical work has characterized the dynamics and convergence properties for wide shallow neural networks trained via gradient descent; the asymptotic regime in which the number of parameters tends towards infinity has been dubbed the "mean-field" limit. At initialization, the randomly samp…

Cited by 42SourcePDFScholar
2020

A mean-field analysis of two-player zero-sum games

NeurIPS 2020poster

Finding Nash equilibria in two-player zero-sum continuous games is a central problem in machine learning, e.g. for training both GANs and robust models. The existence of pure Nash equilibria requires strong conditions which are not typically met in practice. Mixed Nash equilibria exist in greater ge…

Cited by 66SourcePDFScholar
2019

Neuron birth-death dynamics accelerates gradient descent and converges asymptotically

ICML 2019oral

Neural networks with a large number of parameters admit a mean-field description, which has recently served as a theoretical explanation for the favorable training properties of models with a large number of parameters. In this regime, gradient descent obeys a deterministic partial differential equa…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2018

Parameters as interacting particles: long time convergence and asymptotic error scaling of neural networks

NeurIPS 2018poster

The performance of neural networks on high-dimensional data distributions suggests that it may be possible to parameterize a representation of a given high-dimensional function with controllably small errors, potentially outperforming standard interpolation methods. We demonstrate, both the…

Cited by 164SourcePDFScholar