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Early stopping improves logistic regression's calibration and consistency in high dimensions.

problem Improving the statistical performance of gradient descent in overparameterized logistic regression.
method Investigates the effects of early stopping on gradient descent in logistic regression.
result Early-stopped gradient descent is well-calibrated and statistically consistent, while asymptotic gradient descent is not.

This paper improves neural network predictions with early stopping using conformal calibration.

problem Lack of precise statistical guarantees for neural networks trained with early stopping.
method Conformalized early stopping that combines early stopping with conformal calibration.
result Models provide both accuracy and precise inferences without additional data splits.

Early stopping methods reduce unnecessary reasoning steps in LLMs by monitoring uncertainty signals.

problem LLMs sometimes generate unnecessary reasoning steps, especially under uncertainty.
method Statistically principled early stopping methods that monitor uncertainty signals during generation.
result Uncertainty-aware early stopping improves efficiency and reliability in LLM reasoning, especially in math reasoning.

Paper analyzes pricing model for bonds with early redemption.

problem Analyzing pricing of bonds with early redemption features.
method Structural approach for mathematical modeling of bond prices.
result Existence and uniqueness of default and early redemption boundaries proved.

The study reveals optimal early stopping behaviors in deep learning models.

problem Understanding optimal early stopping in deep learning models.
method Theoretical analysis of linear models and experimental validation.
result Two distinct behaviors of optimal early stopping time depending on model dimension relative to dataset features.

E2^2CM uses class means for efficient early exits in neural networks.

problem Efficient early exits in neural networks with low computational cost.
method Early Exit Class Means (E2^2CM) based on class means of samples, without gradient-based training.
result E2^2CM achieves higher accuracy with fixed training time budget and boosts existing early exit schemes.

Enhances early-exit neural networks for anytime classification.

problem Lack of guaranteed prediction quality improvement with longer computation time.
method Post-hoc modification based on Product-of-Experts to enforce conditional monotonicity.
result Achieves conditional monotonicity in prediction quality, enabling anytime classification.

The paper analyzes early stopping in linear regression and shows it's equivalent to ridge regularization.

problem Understanding the effect of early stopping on linear regression models.
method Characterization of gradient descent dynamics and analysis of excess risk.
result Early stopped solution is equivalent to minimum norm solution for a generalized ridge regularized problem.

We estimate treatment cost-savings from early cancer diagnosis. For breast, lung, prostate and colorectal cancers and melanoma, which account for more than 50% of new incidences projected in 2017, we combine published cancer treatment cost estimates by stage with incidence rates by stage at diagnosis. We extrapolate to…

2017-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Study proposes a new early-warning framework for high-dimensional complex systems.

problem Predicting critical transitions in complex systems like epileptic seizures.
method Integrates manifold learning with stochastic dynamical system modeling, using Schrödinger bridge theory.
result Demonstrates higher sensitivity and robustness in epilepsy prediction.

Enhances early risk assessments for pediatric outcomes using contrastive learning.

problem Improving risk assessments in early stages of pediatric development.
method Contrastive multi-modal framework that treats each time window as a distinct modality, training on all available data.
result Consistent improvements in early-stage risk assessments validated on real-world tasks.

The paper accelerates LLM inference by adding early exit heads trained in a self-supervised manner.

problem Inference speed in large language models (LLMs) is slow and resource-intensive.
method Adding self-supervised early exit heads at intermediate transformer layers to stop computation early based on confidence thresholds.
result Entropy provides the most reliable confidence metric for stopping computation early.

Early stopping is a well known approach to reduce the time complexity for performing training and model selection of large scale learning machines. On the other hand, memory/space (rather than time) complexity is the main constraint in many applications, and randomized subsampling techniques have been proposed to tackl…

2015-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimal early liquidation strategy reduces financial losses during crises.

problem Substantial losses from simultaneous asset liquidation at depressed prices.
method Developed a worst-case approach for optimal early liquidation, considering uncertainty of other banks' decisions.
result Proposed robust optimal strategy maximizes liquid assets' value at clearing, even with uncertainty.

Early stopping in meta-learning improved by analyzing neural activation patterns.

problem Early stopping in few-shot learning is challenging due to distributional shifts between meta-validation and meta-test sets.
method Activation-Based Early-stopping (ABE) analyzes hidden layer activations from unlabelled support examples to detect when target generalization diverges from source data.
result Simple activation statistics can effectively estimate target generalization, improving few-shot transfer learning across various algorithms and datasets.

Proposes TPIS for early and low-cost TB vs. pneumonia diagnosis.

problem Challenges in differentiating TB from pneumonia.
method Two-step decision support system with stacked ensemble classifiers.
result TPIS outperforms other methods in early and final diagnosis.

Early stopping of iterative algorithms is an algorithmic regularization method to avoid over-fitting in estimation and classification. In this paper, we show that early stopping can also be applied to obtain the minimax optimal testing in a general non-parametric setup. Specifically, a Wald-type test statistic is obtai…

2018-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies early stopping methods in linear contextual bandits.

problem Minimizing in-experiment regret and conducting robust post-experiment inferences in contextual bandits.
method The study proposes early stopping rules based on the Opportunity Cost and Threshold Method, using variances of estimators to quantify upper regret bounds.
result The proposed method provides a systematic approach to minimize in-experiment regret and conduct robust post-experiment inferences.

Analysis of cross-validation for early-stopped gradient descent in high-dimensional regression.

problem Inconsistency of GCV for early-stopped GD in high-dimensional least squares regression.
method Theoretical analysis of GCV and LOOCV applied to early-stopped GD in high-dimensional least squares regression.
result LOOCV converges uniformly to the prediction risk of early-stopped GD, while GCV is generically inconsistent.

New pricing methods for αα-quantile and early-exercise options using Spitzer identities.

problem Pricing perpetual Bermudan and American options and αα-quantile options.
method Based on Spitzer identities for general Lévy processes and Wiener-Hopf method.
result Direct calculation of the optimal exercise barrier for early-exercise options.

Study improves early warning models for currency and stock market crises.

problem Predicting currency and stock market crises.
method Synthetic review and comparison of early warning models, focusing on crisis identifications and predictive models.
result SWARCH model with elastic thresholding methodology most accurately classifies crisis observations.

Framework prevents deep learning models from memorizing noisy labels.

problem Deep learning models memorize noisy labels during early learning phase.
method Develops a technique that exploits early learning phase via regularization.
result Framework achieves robustness to noisy annotations on benchmarks and real-world datasets.

Paper studies early-stopped mirror descent for noisy sparse phase retrieval.

problem Recovering a sparse signal from noisy quadratic measurements.
method Early-stopped mirror descent with hyperbolic entropy mirror map.
result Achieves nearly minimax-optimal rate of convergence for kk-sparse signals.

SRR detects early signs of financial crises using multi-layer graphs.

problem Predicting systemic financial transitions from evolving market interactions.
method Systemic Risk Radar (SRR) models financial markets as multi-layer graphs.
result Graph-derived features provide useful early-warning signals compared to feature-based models.

Early stopping improves sample quality in latent diffusion models.

problem Latent diffusion models degrade sample quality with conventional early stopping.
method Analyzed the interaction between latent dimension and stopping time under Gaussian framework.
result Lower-dimensional representations benefit from earlier termination, higher-dimensional spaces require later stopping.

Sharp risk bounds for early-stopping in Gaussian linear regression are derived.

problem Minimizing in-sample mean squared error in high-dimensional Gaussian linear regression.
method Early-stopped mirror descent (ESMD) with local Gaussian width bounds.
result Sharp risk bounds extend to early-stopped mirror descent for least squares estimator (LSE).

Noisy labels are very common in real-world training data, which lead to poor generalization on test data because of overfitting to the noisy labels. In this paper, we claim that such overfitting can be avoided by "early stopping" training a deep neural network before the noisy labels are severely memorized. Then, we re…

2019-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a method for early stopping in regression using reproducing kernels.

problem Early stopping for iterative learning algorithms in nonparametric regression.
method Data-driven rule based on minimum discrepancy principle, validated by fixed-point analysis of localized Rademacher complexities.
result The proposed rule is minimax-optimal and performs comparably to cross-validation.

Early neural networks can be simplified to linear models, revealing surprising simplicity.

problem Complexity of neural network learning dynamics.
method Formal proof and empirical verification of early-time learning dynamics of neural networks.
result Early learning dynamics of neural networks can be approximated by simple linear models.