
arXiv: 2403.12278
Motivated by the popularity of stochastic rounding in the context of machine learning and the training of large-scale deep neural network models, we consider stochastic nearness rounding of real matrices $\mathbf{A}$ with many more rows than columns. We provide novel theoretical evidence, supported by extensive experimental evaluation that, with high probability, the smallest singular value of a stochastically rounded matrix is well bounded away from zero -- regardless of how close $\mathbf{A}$ is to being rank deficient and even if $\mathbf{A}$ is rank-deficient. In other words, stochastic rounding \textit{implicitly regularizes} tall and skinny matrices $\mathbf{A}$ so that the rounded version has full column rank. Our proofs leverage powerful results in random matrix theory, and the idea that stochastic rounding errors do not concentrate in low-dimensional column spaces.
Numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors, Roundoff error, singular values, union bound, Numerical linear algebra, Numerical Analysis (math.NA), random matrix theory, variance, Weyl's inequality, arithmetic precision, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Random matrices (probabilistic aspects), rank, FOS: Mathematics, Inequalities; stochastic orderings, stochastic rounding, Mathematics - Numerical Analysis, Hoeffding's inequality, 68W20, 65F15, 65F22, 65G50, 15A18, 15A42
Numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors, Roundoff error, singular values, union bound, Numerical linear algebra, Numerical Analysis (math.NA), random matrix theory, variance, Weyl's inequality, arithmetic precision, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Random matrices (probabilistic aspects), rank, FOS: Mathematics, Inequalities; stochastic orderings, stochastic rounding, Mathematics - Numerical Analysis, Hoeffding's inequality, 68W20, 65F15, 65F22, 65G50, 15A18, 15A42
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