README.md

Insights for Epoch-Wise Double Descent

This repository contains the official implementation of the following ICML 2022 paper:

Mohammad Pezeshki, Amartya Mitra, Yoshua Bengio, Guillaume Lajoie Multi-scale Feature Learning Dynamics: Insights for Double Descent

Requirements:

To ensure reproducibility, we publish the code and expected results of every experiment. We claim that all figures presented in the manuscript can be reproduced using the following requirements:

Python 3.7.10
PyTorch 1.4.0
torchvision 0.5.0
tqdm
matplotlib 3.4.3

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Reproducibility:

ResNet experiments on CIFAR-10

ResNet experiments on CIFAR-10 took 12000 GPU hours on Nvidia V100. The code to manage experiments using the slurm resource management tool is provided in the README available in the ResNet_experiments folder.

To reproduce each figure of the manuscript

python fig1.py:

The generalization error as the training time proceeds. (left): The case where only the fast-learning feature or slow-learning feature are trained. (right): The case where both features are trained with \kappa=100.

python fig3.py:

Top: Analytical results of Eqs. 9, 10 compared to gradient descent dynamics. Bottom: Analytical results of scalar Eqs. 14, 15 compared to ridge regression dynamics.

python fig4.py:

Left: Phase diagram of the generalization error as a function of R(t) and Q(t). The trajectories describe the evolution of R(t) and Q(t) as training proceeds. Each trajectory corresponds to a different $\kappa$, the condition number of the modulation matrix where it describes the ratio of the rates at which two sets of features are learned. Right: The corresponding generalization curves for different plotted over the training time axis.

python fig5_ab.py:

Heat-map of empirical generalization error (0-1 classification error) for the ResNet-18 trained on CIFAR-10 with $15 % label noise. The X-axis denotes the regularization strength, and Y-axis represents the training time.

python fig5_cd.py:

The same plot with the analytical results of the teacher-student. We observe a qualitative comparison between the ResNet-18 results and our analytical results.

python fig6.py:

The effect of regularizing the quantity Q on mitigating the double descent curve.