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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with residual links (ResNets) and causal dilated convolutional units have been the network of choice for deep learning approaches to speech enhancement. While residual links improve gradient flow during…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Mohammad Nikzad , Aaron Nicolson , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou , Kuldip K. Paliwal , Fanhua Shang

Several recent trends in machine learning theory and practice, from the design of state-of-the-art Gaussian Process to the convergence analysis of deep neural nets (DNNs) under stochastic gradient descent (SGD), have found it fruitful to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Greg Yang

The skip-connections used in residual networks have become a standard architecture choice in deep learning due to the increased training stability and generalization performance with this architecture, although there has been limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Spencer Frei , Yuan Cao , Quanquan Gu

In training a neural network with gradient descent (GD), each iteration induces a linear operator that governs first-order updates to a model's internal state variables. We define this operator as the Global Empirical Neural Tangent Kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 James Hazelden , Laura Driscoll , Eli Shlizerman , Eric Shea-Brown

The Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) viewpoint is widely employed to analyze the training dynamics of overparameterized Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). However, unlike the case of linear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Andrea Bonfanti , Giuseppe Bruno , Cristina Cipriani

Kernels derived from deep neural networks (DNNs) in the infinite-width regime provide not only high performance in a range of machine learning tasks but also new theoretical insights into DNN training dynamics and generalization. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Sina Alemohammad , Randall Balestriero , Zichao Wang , Richard Baraniuk

The Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) framework has provided deep insights into the training dynamics of neural networks under gradient flow. However, it relies on the assumption that the network is differentiable with respect to its parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Sriram Nagaraj , Vishakh Hari

We explore the link between deep ensembles and Gaussian processes (GPs) through the lens of the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK): a recent development in understanding the training dynamics of wide neural networks (NNs). Previous work has shown…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Bobby He , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Yee Whye Teh

Obtaining theoretical guarantees for neural networks training appears to be a hard problem in a general case. Recent research has been focused on studying this problem in the limit of infinite width and two different theories have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Eugene A. Golikov

Recently, quantum neural networks or quantum-classical neural networks (qcNN) have been actively studied, as a possible alternative to the conventional classical neural network (cNN), but their practical and theoretically-guaranteed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Kouhei Nakaji , Hiroyuki Tezuka , Naoki Yamamoto

Neural tangent kernels (NTKs) provide a theoretical regime to analyze the learning and generalization behavior of over-parametrized neural networks. For a supervised learning task, the association between the eigenvectors of the NTK kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Shervin Khalafi , Saurabh Sihag , Alejandro Ribeiro

Overparametrization is a key factor in the absence of convexity to explain global convergence of gradient descent (GD) for neural networks. Beside the well studied lazy regime, infinite width (mean field) analysis has been developed for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Raphaël Barboni , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

Transformers have quickly shined in the computer vision world since the emergence of Vision Transformers (ViTs). The dominant role of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) seems to be challenged by increasingly effective transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Xiaohan Chen , Xuxi Chen , Qiao Xiao , Boqian Wu , Tommi Kärkkäinen , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Mocanu , Zhangyang Wang

Various architectures (such as GoogLeNets, ResNets, and DenseNets) have been proposed. However, the existing networks usually suffer from either redundancy of convolutional layers or insufficient utilization of parameters. To handle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Zhiyu Zhu , Zhen-Peng Bian , Junhui Hou , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

Neural tangent kernel (NTK) is a powerful tool to analyze training dynamics of neural networks and their generalization bounds. The study on NTK has been devoted to typical neural network architectures, but it is incomplete for neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yongtao Wu , Zhenyu Zhu , Fanghui Liu , Grigorios G Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

We study the gradient-based training of large-depth residual networks (ResNets) from standard random initializations. We show that infinite-depth ResNets behave as if they were infinitely wide, regardless of their actual width. More…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Lénaïc Chizat

The Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) characterizes how a model's state evolves over Gradient Descent. Computing the full NTK matrix is often infeasible, especially for recurrent architectures. Here, we introduce a matrix-free perspective, using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 James Hazelden

Neural networks have been very successful in many applications; we often, however, lack a theoretical understanding of what the neural networks are actually learning. This problem emerges when trying to generalise to new data sets. The…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Matthew Thorpe , Yves van Gennip

A longstanding goal in the theory of deep learning is to characterize the conditions under which a given neural network architecture will be trainable, and if so, how well it might generalize to unseen data. In this work, we provide such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Lechao Xiao , Jeffrey Pennington , Samuel S. Schoenholz

We discuss relations between Residual Networks (ResNet), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and the primate visual cortex. We begin with the observation that a special type of shallow RNN is exactly equivalent to a very deep ResNet with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Qianli Liao , Tomaso Poggio