Large loss spikes in SGD are polynomially likely and serve as the dominant mechanism for escaping sharp minima toward flatter solutions in the NTK regime.
A diffusion theory for deep learning dynamics: Stochastic gradient descent exponentially favors flat minima
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Large Spikes in Stochastic Gradient Descent: A Large-Deviations View
Large loss spikes in SGD are polynomially likely and serve as the dominant mechanism for escaping sharp minima toward flatter solutions in the NTK regime.