Strong Generalization
Strong generalization, the ability of machine learning models to perform well on unseen data, is a central objective in current research. Active areas of investigation include improving the robustness of self-supervised learning, understanding the optimization dynamics of transformers and other architectures (including CNNs and RNNs), and developing methods to enhance generalization through data augmentation, regularization techniques (e.g., logical regularization, consistency regularization), and improved training strategies (e.g., few-shot learning, meta-learning). These advancements are crucial for building reliable and adaptable AI systems across diverse applications, from image classification and natural language processing to healthcare and robotics.
Papers
A Learn-Then-Reason Model Towards Generalization in Knowledge Base Question Answering
Lingxi Zhang, Jing Zhang, Yanling Wang, Cuiping Li, Hong Chen
MEAT: Median-Ensemble Adversarial Training for Improving Robustness and Generalization
Zhaozhe Hu, Jia-Li Yin, Bin Chen, Luojun Lin, Bo-Hao Chen, Ximeng Liu
GraphFM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Graph Foundation Model
Yuhao Xu, Xinqi Liu, Keyu Duan, Yi Fang, Yu-Neng Chuang, Daochen Zha, Qiaoyu Tan
Expressivity and Generalization: Fragment-Biases for Molecular GNNs
Tom Wollschläger, Niklas Kemper, Leon Hetzel, Johanna Sommer, Stephan Günnemann
Explore-Go: Leveraging Exploration for Generalisation in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Max Weltevrede, Felix Kaubek, Matthijs T.J. Spaan, Wendelin Böhmer
Loss Gradient Gaussian Width based Generalization and Optimization Guarantees
Arindam Banerjee, Qiaobo Li, Yingxue Zhou
Agnostic Sharpness-Aware Minimization
Van-Anh Nguyen, Quyen Tran, Tuan Truong, Thanh-Toan Do, Dinh Phung, Trung Le
Hydra-MDP: End-to-end Multimodal Planning with Multi-target Hydra-Distillation
Zhenxin Li, Kailin Li, Shihao Wang, Shiyi Lan, Zhiding Yu, Yishen Ji, Zhiqi Li, Ziyue Zhu, Jan Kautz, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang, Jose M. Alvarez
Stable Minima Cannot Overfit in Univariate ReLU Networks: Generalization by Large Step Sizes
Dan Qiao, Kaiqi Zhang, Esha Singh, Daniel Soudry, Yu-Xiang Wang
Forget Sharpness: Perturbed Forgetting of Model Biases Within SAM Dynamics
Ankit Vani, Frederick Tung, Gabriel L. Oliveira, Hossein Sharifi-Noghabi
Generalizing to Unseen Domains in Diabetic Retinopathy with Disentangled Representations
Peng Xia, Ming Hu, Feilong Tang, Wenxue Li, Wenhao Zheng, Lie Ju, Peibo Duan, Huaxiu Yao, Zongyuan Ge
On the Minimal Degree Bias in Generalization on the Unseen for non-Boolean Functions
Denys Pushkin, Raphaël Berthier, Emmanuel Abbe