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
Sound Classification of Four Insect Classes
Yinxuan Wang, Sudip Vhaduri
Generalizable Representation Learning for fMRI-based Neurological Disorder Identification
Wenhui Cui, Haleh Akrami, Anand A. Joshi, Richard M. Leahy
The Impact of Generalization Techniques on the Interplay Among Privacy, Utility, and Fairness in Image Classification
Ahmad Hassanpour, Amir Zarei, Khawla Mallat, Anderson Santana de Oliveira, Bian Yang
Retrieval-Augmented Semantic Parsing: Using Large Language Models to Improve Generalization
Xiao Zhang, Qianru Meng, Johan Bos
Guidance Not Obstruction: A Conjugate Consistent Enhanced Strategy for Domain Generalization
Meng Cao, Songcan Chen
The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking
Branton DeMoss, Silvia Sapora, Jakob Foerster, Nick Hawes, Ingmar Posner
The Pitfalls of Memorization: When Memorization Hurts Generalization
Reza Bayat, Mohammad Pezeshki, Elvis Dohmatob, David Lopez-Paz, Pascal Vincent
Towards Graph Foundation Models: A Study on the Generalization of Positional and Structural Encodings
Billy Joe Franks, Moshe Eliasof, Semih Cantürk, Guy Wolf, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Sophie Fellenz, Marius Kloft
Moderating the Generalization of Score-based Generative Model
Wan Jiang, He Wang, Xin Zhang, Dan Guo, Zhaoxin Fan, Yunfeng Diao, Richang Hong
Covered Forest: Fine-grained generalization analysis of graph neural networks
Antonis Vasileiou, Ben Finkelshtein, Floris Geerts, Ron Levie, Christopher Morris