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Deep learning has arguably achieved tremendous success in recent years. In simple words, deep learning uses the composition of many nonlinear functions to model the complex dependency between input features and labels. While neural networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-16 Jianqing Fan , Cong Ma , Yiqiao Zhong

Neural operators perform well on structured domains, yet their behaviour on irregular geometries remains poorly understood. We show that this limitation is not merely an encoding issue, but a depth-wise failure mode inherent to deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yanming Xia , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero

Deep learning algorithms are responsible for a technological revolution in a variety of tasks including image recognition or Go playing. Yet, why they work is not understood. Ultimately, they manage to classify data lying in high dimension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Mario Geiger , Leonardo Petrini , Matthieu Wyart

This article provides an expository account of training dynamics in the Deep Linear Network (DLN) from the perspective of the geometric theory of dynamical systems. Rigorous results by several authors are unified into a thermodynamic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Govind Menon

We consider dynamical and geometrical aspects of deep learning. For many standard choices of layer maps we display semi-invariant metrics which quantify differences between data or decision functions. This allows us, when considering random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Benny Avelin , Anders Karlsson

Deep Learning methods are currently the state-of-the-art in many problems which can be tackled via machine learning, in particular classification problems. However there is still lack of understanding on how those methods work, why they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Moacir Antonelli Ponti , Gabriel B. Paranhos da Costa

The goal of this paper is to analyze the geometric properties of deep neural network classifiers in the input space. We specifically study the topology of classification regions created by deep networks, as well as their associated decision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Alhussein Fawzi , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pascal Frossard , Stefano Soatto

Deep neural networks can approximate functions on different types of data, from images to graphs, with varied underlying structure. This underlying structure can be viewed as the geometry of the data manifold. By extending recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Saket Tiwari , George Konidaris

Understanding how large neural networks avoid memorizing training data is key to explaining their high generalization performance. To examine the structure of when and where memorization occurs in a deep network, we use a recently developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Cory Stephenson , Suchismita Padhy , Abhinav Ganesh , Yue Hui , Hanlin Tang , SueYeon Chung

We survey the mathematical foundations of geometric deep learning, focusing on group equivariant and gauge equivariant neural networks. We develop gauge equivariant convolutional neural networks on arbitrary manifolds $\mathcal{M}$ using…

Deep learning is one of the new and important branches in machine learning. Deep learning refers to a set of algorithms that solve various problems such as images and texts by using various machine learning algorithms in multi-layer neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Yang Li , Sangwhan Cha

Deep learning has achieved a remarkable performance breakthrough in several fields, most notably in speech recognition, natural language processing, and computer vision. In particular, convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures…

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The recent impressive results of deep learning-based methods on computer vision applications brought fresh air to the research and industrial community. This success is mainly due to the process that allows those methods to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Keiller Nogueira , Jocelyn Chanussot , Mauro Dalla Mura , Jefersson A. dos Santos

The characterization of dynamical processes in living systems provides important clues for their mechanistic interpretation and link to biological functions. Thanks to recent advances in microscopy techniques, it is now possible to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-11-29 Jesús Pineda , Benjamin Midtvedt , Harshith Bachimanchi , Sergio Noé , Daniel Midtvedt , Giovanni Volpe , Carlo Manzo

The underspecification of most machine learning pipelines means that we cannot rely solely on validation performance to assess the robustness of deep learning systems to naturally occurring distribution shifts. Instead, making sure that a…

In this position paper, we promote the study of function spaces parameterized by machine learning models through the lens of algebraic geometry. To this end, we focus on algebraic models, such as neural networks with polynomial activations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Vahid Shahverdi , Stefano Mereta , Matthew Trager , Kathlén Kohn

Deep neural networks implement a sequence of layer-by-layer operations that are each relatively easy to understand, but the resulting overall computation is generally difficult to understand. We consider a simple hypothesis for interpreting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Richard D. Lange , Devin Kwok , Jordan Matelsky , Xinyue Wang , David S. Rolnick , Konrad P. Kording

Although statistical learning theory provides a robust framework to understand supervised learning, many theoretical aspects of deep learning remain unclear, in particular how different architectures may lead to inductive bias when trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Cédric Gerbelot , Avetik Karagulyan , Stefani Karp , Kavya Ravichandran , Menachem Stern , Nathan Srebro

We describe the new field of mathematical analysis of deep learning. This field emerged around a list of research questions that were not answered within the classical framework of learning theory. These questions concern: the outstanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Julius Berner , Philipp Grohs , Gitta Kutyniok , Philipp Petersen

A key factor in the success of deep neural networks is the ability to scale models to improve performance by varying the architecture depth and width. This simple property of neural network design has resulted in highly effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Thao Nguyen , Maithra Raghu , Simon Kornblith