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Stochastic Weight Averaging

45 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Pavel Izmailov et al. in Averaging Weights Leads to Wider Optima and Better Generalization

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

Stochastic Weight Averaging is an optimization procedure that averages multiple points along the trajectory of SGD, with a cyclical or constant learning rate. On the one hand it averages weights, but it also has the property that, with a cyclical or constant learning rate, SGD proposals are approximately sampling from the loss surface of the network, leading to stochastic weights and helping to discover broader optima.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

20 shown of 69 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Image Classification7
Semantic Segmentation6
image-classification4
Bayesian Inference3
Data Augmentation3
Domain Generalization3
Knowledge Distillation3
Object3
Segmentation3
Transfer Learning3
Federated Learning2
Generalization Bounds2
Instance Segmentation2
Knowledge Graphs2
Node Classification2
Object Detection2
Question Answering2
Representation Learning2
Text Classification2
Uncertainty Quantification2

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Stochastic Weight Averaging: 2018 to 2025, peak 12 12 0 2018: 1 paper 2018 2019: 3 papers 2019 2020: 3 papers 2020 2021: 8 papers 2021 2022: 12 papers 2022 2023: 8 papers 2023 2024: 6 papers 2024 2025: 4 papers 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (45 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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