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Paper · 2109.14119 · ICLR · 2022

Stochastic Training is Not Necessary for Generalization

Micah Goldblum, Tom Goldstein, Jonas Geiping, Phillip Pope, Michael Moeller

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Abstract

It is widely believed that the implicit regularization of SGD is fundamental to the impressive generalization behavior we observe in neural networks. In this work, we demonstrate that non-stochastic full-batch training can achieve comparably strong performance to SGD on CIFAR-10 using modern architectures. To this end, we show that the implicit regularization of SGD can be completely replaced with explicit regularization even when comparing against a strong and well-researched baseline. Our observations indicate that the perceived difficulty of full-batch training may be the result of its optimization properties and the disproportionate time and effort spent by the ML community tuning optimizers and hyperparameters for small-batch training. 1

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