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Poster

Fluctuation-dissipation relations for stochastic gradient descent

Sho Yaida

Great Hall BC #18

Keywords: [ hessian ] [ adaptive method ] [ loss surface ] [ stochastic gradient descent ]


Abstract:

The notion of the stationary equilibrium ensemble has played a central role in statistical mechanics. In machine learning as well, training serves as generalized equilibration that drives the probability distribution of model parameters toward stationarity. Here, we derive stationary fluctuation-dissipation relations that link measurable quantities and hyperparameters in the stochastic gradient descent algorithm. These relations hold exactly for any stationary state and can in particular be used to adaptively set training schedule. We can further use the relations to efficiently extract information pertaining to a loss-function landscape such as the magnitudes of its Hessian and anharmonicity. Our claims are empirically verified.

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