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Generalization Error Bounds with Probabilistic Guarantee for SGD in Nonconvex Optimization

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The success of deep learning has led to a rising interest in the generalization property of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method, and stability is one popular approach to study it. Existing works based on stability have studied nonconvex loss functions, but only considered the generalization error of the SGD in expectation. In this paper, we establish various generalization error bounds with probabilistic guarantee for the SGD. Specifically, for both general nonconvex loss functions and gradient dominant loss functions, we characterize the on-average stability of the iterates generated by SGD in terms of the on-average variance of the stochastic gradients. Such characterization leads to improved bounds for the generalization error for SGD. We then study the regularized risk minimization problem with strongly convex regularizers, and obtain improved generalization error bounds for proximal SGD. With strongly convex regularizers, we further establish the generalization error bounds for nonconvex loss functions under proximal SGD with high-probability guarantee, i.e., exponential concentration in probability.

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cs.LG 2

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2026 1 2024 1

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UNVERDICTED 2

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A Theory on Flow Matching with Neural Networks

cs.LG · 2026-06-08 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Establishes convergence guarantees for overparameterized 2-layer ReLU networks in flow matching, generalization bounds for the velocity-field objective, and Wasserstein guarantees for generated samples, using multi-task representation learning bounds.

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  • A Theory on Flow Matching with Neural Networks cs.LG · 2026-06-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 149 · internal anchor

    Establishes convergence guarantees for overparameterized 2-layer ReLU networks in flow matching, generalization bounds for the velocity-field objective, and Wasserstein guarantees for generated samples, using multi-task representation learning bounds.

  • Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models cs.LG · 2024-01-02 · unverdicted · none · ref 121 · internal anchor

    SPIN lets weak LLMs become strong by self-generating training data from previous model versions and training to prefer human-annotated responses over its own outputs, outperforming DPO even with extra GPT-4 data on benchmarks.