Reproducibility challenge: Bad Global Minima Exist and SGD Can Reach Them

This project attempts to reproduce the main claims in Bad Global Minima Exist and SGD Can Reach Them for the 2021 Weights & Biases Reproducibility Challenge.

Project done by the group Data with participations by Gustavo Sutter P. Carvalho, João Araújo, João Pedro Rodrigues Mattos, João Marcos Cardoso da Silva and Bruno Gomes Coelho.

See the final report here.

Code Structure

• src - Contains the source code with it's own README explaning how to use the code.
• notebooks - Helper code for validating, prototyping and testing our code.

Original authors and citations

Original authors: Shengchao Liu, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Dimitris Achlioptas

@article{liu2020bad,
  title={Bad global minima exist and sgd can reach them},
  author={Liu, Shengchao and Papailiopoulos, Dimitris and Achlioptas, Dimitris},
  journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume={33},
  year={2020}
}

See the original repo for more info by the authors.