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Weight decay is often used to ensure good generalization in the training practice of deep neural networks with batch normalization (BN-DNNs), where some convolution layers are invariant to weight rescaling due to the normalization. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ziquan Liu , Yufei Cui , Jia Wan , Yu Mao , Antoni B. Chan

The Lipschitz bound, a technique from robust statistics, can limit the maximum changes in the output concerning the input, taking into account associated irrelevant biased factors. It is an efficient and provable method for examining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yaning Jia , Chunhui Zhang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer low-latency and energy-efficient decision-making on neuromorphic hardware by mimicking the event-driven dynamics of biological neurons. However, the discrete and non-differentiable nature of spikes leads…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zijie Xu , Xinyu Shi , Yiting Dong , Zihan Huang , Zhaofei Yu

In this paper, we propose a novel normalization method called gradient normalization (GN) to tackle the training instability of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) caused by the sharp gradient space. Unlike existing work such as gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yi-Lun Wu , Hong-Han Shuai , Zhi-Rui Tam , Hong-Yu Chiu

Models with nonlinear architectures/parameterizations such as deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known for their mysteriously good generalization performance at overparameterization. In this work, we tackle this mystery from a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yaoyu Zhang , Zhongwang Zhang , Leyang Zhang , Zhiwei Bai , Tao Luo , Zhi-Qin John Xu

A recent line of work has established intriguing connections between the generalization/compression properties of a deep neural network (DNN) model and the so-called layer weights' stable ranks. Intuitively, the latter are indicators of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Bogdan Georgiev , Lukas Franken , Mayukh Mukherjee , Georgios Arvanitidis

In this work we propose lifted regression/reconstruction networks (LRRNs), which combine lifted neural networks with a guaranteed Lipschitz continuity property for the output layer. Lifted neural networks explicitly optimize an energy model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Rasmus Kjær Høier , Christopher Zach

In binary classification and regression problems, it is well understood that Lipschitz continuity and smoothness of the loss function play key roles in governing generalization error bounds for empirical risk minimization algorithms. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Ambuj Tewari , Sougata Chaudhuri

Explainability models are now prevalent within machine learning to address the black-box nature of neural networks. The question now is which explainability model is most effective. Probabilistic Lipschitzness has demonstrated that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Lachlan Simpson , Kyle Millar , Adriel Cheng , Cheng-Chew Lim , Hong Gunn Chew

Neural networks (NNs) have emerged as a state-of-the-art method for modeling nonlinear systems in model predictive control (MPC). However, the robustness of NNs, in terms of sensitivity to small input perturbations, remains a critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Wallace Tan Gian Yion , Zhe Wu

It has been recently observed in much of the literature that neural networks exhibit a bottleneck rank property: for larger depths, the activation and weights of neural networks trained with gradient-based methods tend to be of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Antoine Ledent , Rodrigo Alves , Yunwen Lei

Empirical studies have widely demonstrated that neural networks are highly sensitive to small, adversarial perturbations of the input. The worst-case robustness against these so-called adversarial examples can be quantified by the Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-03 Paul Geuchen , Dominik Stöger , Thomas Telaar , Felix Voigtlaender

Neural networks are known to develop latent representations that are $aligned$, namely structurally similar across networks trained with different architectures, training protocols, or training datasets. We study this phenomenon in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Ali Hussaini Umar , Alessandro Laio

Due to their susceptibility to adversarial perturbations, neural networks (NNs) are hardly used in safety-critical applications. One measure of robustness to such perturbations in the input is the Lipschitz constant of the input-output map…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Patricia Pauli , Anne Koch , Julian Berberich , Paul Kohler , Frank Allgöwer

Robustness certification against bounded input noise or adversarial perturbations is increasingly important for deployment recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in safety-critical control applications. To address this challenge, we present…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Paul Hamelbeck , Johannes Schiffer

One of the challenges in the study of generative adversarial networks is the instability of its training. In this paper, we propose a novel weight normalization technique called spectral normalization to stabilize the training of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Takeru Miyato , Toshiki Kataoka , Masanori Koyama , Yuichi Yoshida

As the representations output by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly employed in real-world applications, it becomes important to ensure that these representations are fair and stable. In this work, we establish a key connection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Chirag Agarwal , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Marinka Zitnik

Attention based neural networks are state of the art in a large range of applications. However, their performance tends to degrade when the number of layers increases. In this work, we show that enforcing Lipschitz continuity by normalizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 George Dasoulas , Kevin Scaman , Aladin Virmaux

Despite the large success of deep neural networks (DNN) in recent years, most neural networks still lack mathematical guarantees in terms of stability. For instance, DNNs are vulnerable to small or even imperceptible input perturbations, so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Leon Bungert , René Raab , Tim Roith , Leo Schwinn , Daniel Tenbrinck

Motivated by classical work on the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations we present a ResNet-styled neural network architecture that encodes non-expansive (1-Lipschitz) operators, as long as the spectral norms of the…