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New theory explains curvature in Probabilistic Circuits

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Researchers have developed a compositional theory for understanding curvature in Probabilistic Circuits (PCs), a type of generative model. They demonstrated that the Hessian trace, a measure of loss-surface curvature, can be decomposed into a node's circuit flow and a local sharpness term. This insight helps explain why global sharpness regularization can lead to underfitting and depth bias. The new theory enables an adaptive regularizer that targets local curvature, preserving generalization while maintaining the benefits of sharpness-aware learning and closed-form EM updates. AI

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hrithik Suresh, Sahil Sidheekh, Shelar Parth Vijay, Yasir Z, Sriraam Natarajan, Narayanan Chatapuram Krishnan ·

    A Compositional Theory of Curvature in Probabilistic Circuits

    arXiv:2608.12869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probabilistic Circuits (PCs) are generative models that support exact inference and, unlike deep neural networks, admit an exact and tractable measure of loss-surface curvature: the trace of the Hessian of the log-likelihood. Rece…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    A Compositional Theory of Curvature in Probabilistic Circuits

    Probabilistic Circuits (PCs) are generative models that support exact inference and, unlike deep neural networks, admit an exact and tractable measure of loss-surface curvature: the trace of the Hessian of the log-likelihood. Recent work regularizes this trace globally to bias le…

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