Too long story. I will summarize it in few points.

  • It was quite long effort after several failures.

  • The work almost went for 3 semesters.

  • Semester 1 was quite heavy and sincere work. Heavy brain storming with Prof. Vineeth, Ravi and Rahul.

  • We brought the paper to a good level and submitted it to IJCAI.

  • It did not get through.

  • Sem 1 + 1/2 finishes.

  • We improved it further and submitted it to CIKM.

  • CIKM could not accept it as it had no appropriate reviewers for the topic.

  • Semester 2 + summer finishes.

  • We improved it further.

  • Submitted it to AAAI-2021.

  • Finally got it accepted before the end of semester 3.

Here are details to the paper:

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Authors: Adepu Ravi Shankar*, Yash Khasbage*, Rahul Vigneswaran, Vineeth N Balasubramanian
Title: A Deeper Look at the Hessian Eigenspectrum of Deep Neural Networks and its Applications to Regularization
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03801
Code: https://github.com/yashkhasbage25/HTR
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I am grateful to Ravi for sharing the first author with me. Learned a lot from him!!!