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Rik Sarkar

5 accepted papers

2025

Approximating Metric Magnitude of Point Sets

AAAI 2025technical

Metric magnitude of a point cloud is a measure of its ``size." It has been adapted to various mathematical contexts and recent work suggests that it can enhance machine learning and optimization algorithms. But its usability is limited due to the computational cost when the dataset is large or when…

2024

Metric Space Magnitude for Evaluating the Diversity of Latent Representations

NeurIPS 2024poster

The *magnitude* of a metric space is a novel invariant that provides a measure of the 'effective size' of a space across multiple scales, while also capturing numerous geometrical properties, such as curvature, density, or entropy. We develop a family of magnitude-based measures of the intrinsic div…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Topological Generalization Bounds for Discrete-Time Stochastic Optimization Algorithms

NeurIPS 2024poster

We present a novel set of rigorous and computationally efficient topology-based complexity notions that exhibit a strong correlation with the generalization gap in modern deep neural networks (DNNs). DNNs show remarkable generalization properties, yet the source of these capabilities remains elusive…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2022

The Shapley Value in Machine Learning

IJCAI 2022poster

Over the last few years, the Shapley value, a solution concept from cooperative game theory, has found numerous applications in machine learning. In this paper, we first discuss fundamental concepts of cooperative game theory and axiomatic properties of the Shapley value. Then we give an overview of…