Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Complexity control by gradient descent in deep networks

  • Tomaso Poggio,
  • Qianli Liao,
  • Andrzej Banburski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14663-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Understanding the underlying mechanisms behind the successes of deep networks remains a challenge. Here, the author demonstrates an implicit regularization in training deep networks, showing that the control of complexity in the training is hidden within the optimization technique of gradient descent.