ML for Scientists: L1
Carol(ina) Cuesta-Lazaro
This week in AI4Science
https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
This week's goal
x
Features
Labels
y
\hat{y} = f_\theta(x)
\mathcal{L}(\theta, y, \hat{y})
Multilayer perceptron
f_\theta(x)
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"Single hidden layer can be used to approximate any continuous function to any desired precision"
Optimization
Arbitrary accurate solution exists, but can it be found?
Generalization?
Overfitting
Universal Approximators
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Image Credit: "Visualizing the loss landscape of neural networks" Hao Li et al
Empirical Muon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16899
ML For Scientists: L1
By carol cuesta
