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We propose a new physics-informed neural network framework, IDPINN, based on the enhancement of initialization and domain decomposition to improve prediction accuracy. We train a PINN using a small dataset to obtain an initial network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Chenhao Si , Ming Yan

The broad range of neural network training techniques that invoke optimization but rely on ad hoc modification for validity suggests that optimization-based training is misguided. Shortcomings of optimization-based training are brought to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Irina Babayan , Hazhir Aliahmadi , Greg van Anders

We provide a detailed asymptotic study of gradient flow trajectories and their implicit optimization bias when minimizing the exponential loss over "diagonal linear networks". This is the simplest model displaying a transition between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Edward Moroshko , Suriya Gunasekar , Blake Woodworth , Jason D. Lee , Nathan Srebro , Daniel Soudry

Neural fields encode continuous multidimensional signals as neural networks, enabling diverse applications in computer vision, robotics, and geometry. While Adam is effective for stochastic optimization, it often requires long training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Shin-Fang Chng , Hemanth Saratchandran , Simon Lucey

This paper presents a PINN training framework that employs (1) pre-training steps that accelerates and improve the robustness of the training of physics-informed neural network with auxiliary data stored in point clouds, (2) a net-to-net…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bahador Bahmani , WaiChing Sun

It is well known that it is challenging to train deep neural networks and recurrent neural networks for tasks that exhibit long term dependencies. The vanishing or exploding gradient problem is a well known issue associated with these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Eugene Vorontsov , Chiheb Trabelsi , Samuel Kadoury , Chris Pal

Neural network optimization remains one of the most consequential yet poorly understood challenges in modern AI research, where improvements in training algorithms can lead to enhanced feature learning in foundation models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ansh Nagwekar

In this paper we study the problem of learning a shallow artificial neural network that best fits a training data set. We study this problem in the over-parameterized regime where the number of observations are fewer than the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Adel Javanmard , Jason D. Lee

Port-Hamiltonian neural networks have shown promising results in the identification of nonlinear dynamics of complex systems, as their combination of physical principles with data-driven learning allows for accurate modelling. However, due…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 G. J. E. van Otterdijk , S. Weiland , M. Schoukens

Training deep neural networks remains computationally intensive due to the itera2 tive nature of gradient-based optimization. We propose Gradient Flow Matching (GFM), a continuous-time modeling framework that treats neural network training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiao Shou , Yanna Ding , Jianxi Gao

The geometric structure of an optimization landscape is argued to be fundamentally important to support the success of deep neural network learning. A direct computation of the landscape beyond two layers is hard. Therefore, to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Wenxuan Zou , Haiping Huang

Coordinate-based neural representations have shown significant promise as an alternative to discrete, array-based representations for complex low dimensional signals. However, optimizing a coordinate-based network from randomly initialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Matthew Tancik , Ben Mildenhall , Terrance Wang , Divi Schmidt , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Jonathan T. Barron , Ren Ng

The theory of greedy low-rank learning (GLRL) aims to explain the impressive generalization capabilities of deep learning. It proves that stochastic gradient-based training implicitly regularizes neural networks towards low-rank solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Jiawei Zhao , Yifei Zhang , Beidi Chen , Florian Schäfer , Anima Anandkumar

Deep learning, in the form of artificial neural networks, has achieved remarkable practical success in recent years, for a variety of difficult machine learning applications. However, a theoretical explanation for this remains a major open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Itay Safran , Ohad Shamir

The early phase of training a deep neural network has a dramatic effect on the local curvature of the loss function. For instance, using a small learning rate does not guarantee stable optimization because the optimization trajectory has a…

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for implicit data representation to evaluate similarity of input data using a trained neural network. In contrast to the previous approach, which uses gradients for representation, we utilize only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Alan Savushkin , Nikita Benkovich , Dmitry Golubev

It is well understood that neural networks with carefully hand-picked weights provide powerful function approximation and that they can be successfully trained in over-parametrized regimes. Since over-parametrization ensures zero training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 G. Welper

We provide a theoretical explanation for the effectiveness of gradient clipping in training deep neural networks. The key ingredient is a new smoothness condition derived from practical neural network training examples. We observe that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Jingzhao Zhang , Tianxing He , Suvrit Sra , Ali Jadbabaie

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a powerful deep learning method capable of providing solutions and parameter estimations of physical systems. Given the complexity of their neural network structure, the convergence speed is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Sirui Li , Federica Bragone , Matthieu Barreau , Kateryna Morozovska

To theoretically understand the behavior of trained deep neural networks, it is necessary to study the dynamics induced by gradient methods from a random initialization. However, the nonlinear and compositional structure of these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Karl Hajjar , Lénaïc Chizat , Christophe Giraud