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Non-Gaussianity of Stochastic Gradient Noise

Abhishek Panigrahi, Raghav Somani, Navin Goyal & Praneeth Netrapalli
Published at: Science meets Engineering of Deep Learning (SEDL) workshop, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019

We study the distribution of the Stochastic Gradient Noise during the training and observe that for batch sizes \(256\) and above, the distribution is best described as Gaussian at-least in the early phases of training. Read more

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