ML Theory @ GT

Machine learning theory reading group at Georgia Tech

This is the website for the ML Theory reading group organized by Jacob Abernethy and Vidya Muthukumar in the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. We meet every Friday at 12:30AM in the CODA building. Email Tyler LaBonte at tlabonte@gatech.edu if you wish to attend.

If you’re looking for the CS7545: Machine Learning Theory course website, click here.

Meetings Schedule and presenters

Fall 2023: Special Session on Implicit Bias

Date Paper Presenter
06 Oct 2023 Implicit bias introduction Vidya Muthukumar
13 Oct 2023 Characterizing Implicit Bias in Terms of Optimization Geometry Kuo-Wei Lai
20 Oct 2023 Nati Srebro’s tutorial about implicit bias at Simons Institute Watch video
27 Oct 2023 Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent on Linear Convolutional Networks Yun-Feng Lo
03 Nov 2023 Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent for Wide Two-layer Neural Networks Trained with the Logistic Loss Matthew Lau
10 Nov 2023 Gradient Descent Maximizes the Margin of Homogeneous Neural Networks Guanghui Wang
17 Nov 2023 No meeting due to DeepMath  
24 Nov 2023 No meeting due to Thanksgiving  
01 Dec 2023 No meeting  
08 Dec 2023 Directional convergence and alignment in deep learning Guanghui Wang
  Implicit Regularization in Matrix Factorization  
  Implicit Regularization in ReLU Networks with the Square Loss  
  Neural Tangent Kernel: Convergence and Generalization in Neural Networks  

Previous semesters: Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017