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Binary Perceptron: Efficient Algorithms Can Find Solutions in a RareWell-Connected Cluster

Abbe, Emmanuel  
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Li, Shuangping
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Sly, Allan
January 1, 2022
Proceedings Of The 54Th Annual Acm Sigact Symposium On Theory Of Computing (Stoc '22)
54th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)

It was recently shown that almost all solutions in the symmetric binary perceptron are isolated, even at low constraint densities, suggesting that finding typical solutions is hard. In contrast, some algorithms have been shown empirically to succeed in finding solutions at low density. This phenomenon has been justified numerically by the existence of subdominant and dense connected regions of solutions, which are accessible by simple learning algorithms. In this paper, we establish formally such a phenomenon for both the symmetric and asymmetric binary perceptrons. We show that at low constraint density (equivalently for overparametrized perceptrons), there exists indeed a subdominant connected cluster of solutions with almost maximal diameter, and that an efficient multiscale majority algorithm can find solutions in such a cluster with high probability, settling in particular an open problem posed by Perkins-Xu in STOC'21. In addition, even close to the critical threshold, we show that there exist clusters of linear diameter for the symmetric perceptron, as well as for the asymmetric perceptron under additional assumptions.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3519935.3519975
Web of Science ID

WOS:000852709400070

Author(s)
Abbe, Emmanuel  
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Li, Shuangping
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Sly, Allan
Date Issued

2022-01-01

Publisher

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY

Publisher place

New York

Published in
Proceedings Of The 54Th Annual Acm Sigact Symposium On Theory Of Computing (Stoc '22)
ISBN of the book

978-1-4503-9264-8

Series title/Series vol.

Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

Start page

860

End page

873

Subjects

Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Mathematics, Applied

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Computer Science

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Mathematics

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perceptron model

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neural networks

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solution space

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efficient algorithm

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binary perceptron

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networks

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

Event nameEvent placeEvent date
54th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)

Rome, ITALY

Jun 20-24, 2022

Available on Infoscience
October 10, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/191331
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