We study the properties of the endpoint of stochastic gradient descent (SGD). By approximating SGD as a stochastic differential equation (SDE) we consider the Boltzmann-Gibbs equilibrium distribution of that SDE under the assumption of isotropic variance in loss gradients. Through this analysis, we find that three factors – learning rate, batch size and the variance of the loss gradients – cont...

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The paper at hand deals with an approach for the automatic generation of dynamic nonlinear process models. These models are obtained from experimental process data as well as from theoretical biological and chemical reeections using the ideas of Genetic Programming for the supervision and coordination of the symbolic model structure during the automatic development.

Radio- and chemotherapy for malignant neoplasms, especially in head and neck region, is associated with a greater risk of fungal infections due to secondary alterations in the mucous membranes. The study had three aims: 1.to determine the signs and symptoms which occur among patients undergoing radiotherapy; 2. to determine the fungi prevalence in the mouth and throat of patients before, during...

We introduce and study the batched bin packing problem (BBPP), a bin packing problem in which items become available for packing incrementally, one batch at a time. A batched algorithm must pack a batch before the next batch becomes known. A batch may contain several items; the special case when each batch consists of merely one item is the well-studied on-line bin packing problem. We obtain lo...