papersSEP 10 04:00 UTC
Study connects f-divergence regularization and SAM through local curvature analysis
A new arXiv paper examines how divergence-based regularization relates to Sharpness-Aware Minimization, two widely used techniques for improving generalization in deep learning. The authors use local curvature analysis to explain why f-divergence regularization, like SAM, improves robustness to parameter perturbations.