Séminaire Probabilités et Statistiques
On the implicit regularization of Langevin dynamics with projected noise.
02
avr. 2026
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Intervenant : Adrien Vacher
Institution : ENSAE
Heure : 14h00 - 15h00
Lieu : 3L15

We study Langevin dynamics with noise projected onto the directions orthogonal to an isometric group action. This mathematical model is introduced to shed new light on the effects of symmetry on stochastic gradient descent for over-parametrized models. Our main result identifies a novel form of implicit regularization: when the initial and target density are both invariant under the group action, Langevin dynamics with projected noise is equivalent in law to Langevin dynamics with isotropic diffusion but with an additional drift term proportional to the negative log volume of the group orbit. We prove this result by constructing a coupling of the two processes via a third process on the group itself, and identify the additional drift as the mean curvature of the orbits.

 

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