Machine Learning from a Continuous Viewpoint

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12777v2
• Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 04:15:09 GMT
• Title: Machine Learning from a Continuous Viewpoint
• Authors: Weinan E, Chao Ma, Lei Wu
• Abstract summary: We present a continuous formulation of machine learning, as a problem in the calculus of variations and differential-integral equations. We discuss how the issues of generalization error and implicit regularization can be studied under this framework.
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• Abstract: We present a continuous formulation of machine learning, as a problem in the calculus of variations and differential-integral equations, in the spirit of classical numerical analysis. We demonstrate that conventional machine learning models and algorithms, such as the random feature model, the two-layer neural network model and the residual neural network model, can all be recovered (in a scaled form) as particular discretizations of different continuous formulations. We also present examples of new models, such as the flow-based random feature model, and new algorithms, such as the smoothed particle method and spectral method, that arise naturally from this continuous formulation. We discuss how the issues of generalization error and implicit regularization can be studied under this framework.

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