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Researchers analyze "grokking" phenomenon in machine learning models

A new paper on arXiv explores the phenomenon of "grokking" in machine learning models, a process where models initially overfit training data but later generalize to new data. Researchers Baye Malick Gning and colleagues have developed an analytically tractable setting to study grokking, allowing them to isolate the effects of various factors like initialization, signal strength, and weight decay. Their work identifies specific conditions under which grokking is guaranteed to occur and provides analytical expressions for the duration of generalization plateaus, drawing parallels to chemical kinetics and fast/slow phases. AI

IMPACT Provides theoretical insights into model generalization, potentially informing future model development and training strategies.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Baye Malick Gning, Elvis Dohmatob ·

    Statistical Vignettes on the Grokking Phenomenon

    arXiv:2610.18811v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we study grokking in a simple, analytically tractable setting whose rich phenomenology allows us to disentangle the effects of initialization, signal strength, weight decay, sample size, and input dimension. These …