The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learningexplained for non-mathematicians

Generalization

Performance on a training sample and performance on new examples are different quantities.

Lessons

  1. ReLU and positive scaling
  2. Minimum training margin
  3. Neural tangent kernel
  4. Margin surrogate loss
  5. A complexity bound
  6. Loss of a prediction rule
  7. Linearizing a network
  8. Gradient flow and the kernel
  9. Exponential loss and margin
  10. Minimum kernel norm interpolation
  11. A norm-constrained network class
  12. Rademacher contraction example
  13. A supremum equality
  14. Peeling norm bounds
  15. A margin-bound example
  16. A limiting variance curve
  17. Effective dimension and variance
  18. Variance with correlated coordinates
  19. Balanced adjacent layers
  20. A constant-kernel flow solution
  21. The printed bias–variance equality
  22. Training loss and a robust margin
  23. Exponential risk and its gradient
  24. Projected normalized gradient
  25. Backpropagation through two layers
  26. A boundary case in the printed margin inequality
  27. A one-sample matrix pseudoinverse
  28. An algorithm’s sample complexity measure
  29. A ReLU derivative identity
  30. A width limit and a kernel space