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Why Do We Need Weight Decay in Modern Deep Learning?

Aditya Varre, Francesco D'Angelo, Maksym Andriushchenko, Nicolas Flammarion

arxiv:2310.04415 v2 · 2023-10-06 · cs.LG

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arxiv: 2310.04415 · arxiv_version: 2310.04415v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.04415 · pith_short_12: 7L7PLV7VTM6W · pith_short_16: 7L7PLV7VTM6W4HMI · pith_short_8: 7L7PLV7V

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