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Natural language is compositional; the meaning of a sentence is a function of the meaning of its parts. This property allows humans to create and interpret novel sentences, generalizing robustly outside their prior experience. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Henry Conklin , Bailin Wang , Kenny Smith , Ivan Titov

Artificial and biological agents cannon learn given completely random and unstructured data. The structure of data is encoded in the metric relationships between data points. In the context of neural networks, neuronal activity within a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Kosio Beshkov , Jonas Verhellen , Mikkel Elle Lepperød

While overfitting and, more generally, double descent are ubiquitous in machine learning, increasing the number of parameters of the most widely used tensor network, the matrix product state (MPS), has generally lead to monotonic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Artem Strashko , E. Miles Stoudenmire

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) show impressive performance in the standard classification setting where training and testing data are drawn i.i.d. from a given domain. However, CNNs do not readily generalize to new domains with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Nathan Somavarapu , Chih-Yao Ma , Zsolt Kira

We develop an algorithm for systematic design of a large artificial neural network using a progression property. We find that some non-linear functions, such as the rectifier linear unit and its derivatives, hold the property. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Saikat Chatterjee , Alireza M. Javid , Mostafa Sadeghi , Partha P. Mitra , Mikael Skoglund

Random features models play a distinguished role in the theory of deep learning, describing the behavior of neural networks close to their infinite-width limit. In this work, we present a thorough analysis of the generalization performance…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-03 Fabián Aguirre-López , Silvio Franz , Mauro Pastore

A number of machine learning models have been proposed with the goal of achieving systematic generalization: the ability to reason about new situations by combining aspects of previous experiences. These models leverage compositional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Devon Jarvis , Richard Klein , Benjamin Rosman , Andrew M. Saxe

Studying the sensitivity of weight perturbation in neural networks and its impacts on model performance, including generalization and robustness, is an active research topic due to its implications on a wide range of machine learning tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Yu-Lin Tsai , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Pin-Yu Chen

Neural networks have succeeded in many reasoning tasks. Empirically, these tasks require specialized network structures, e.g., Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) perform well on many such tasks, but less structured networks fail. Theoretically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Keyulu Xu , Jingling Li , Mozhi Zhang , Simon S. Du , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Stefanie Jegelka

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard method for learning from networks across fields ranging from biology to social systems, yet a principled understanding of what enables them to extract meaningful representations, or why…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Nil Ayday , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

The paper uses statistical and differential geometric motivation to acquire prior information about the learning capability of an artificial neural network on a given dataset. The paper considers a broad class of neural networks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ankan Dutta , Arnab Rakshit

In this paper, we study the generalization properties of neural networks under input perturbations and show that minimal training data corruption by a few pixel modifications can cause drastic overfitting. We propose an evolutionary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Subhajit Chaudhury , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Conventional deep learning prioritizes unconstrained optimization, yet biological systems operate under strict metabolic constraints. We propose that these physical constraints shape dynamics to function not as limitations, but as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xia Chen

Two architectures that generalize convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the processing of signals supported on graphs are introduced. We start with the selection graph neural network (GNN), which replaces linear time invariant filters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-30 Fernando Gama , Antonio G. Marques , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

Visual object recognition systems need to generalize from a set of 2D training views to novel views. The question of how the human visual system can generalize to novel views has been studied and modeled in psychology, computer vision, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , David Krueger , Thomas Breuel

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a fundamental tool for learning from graph-structured data, achieving strong performance across a wide range of applications. However, understanding their generalization capabilities remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Peiyao Wang , Liang Bai , Xian Yang , Richard Yi Da Xu , Jiye Liang

We study the generalization of deep learning models in relation to the convex hull of their training sets. A trained image classifier basically partitions its domain via decision boundaries and assigns a class to each of those partitions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Seq2Seq based neural architectures have become the go-to architecture to apply to sequence to sequence language tasks. Despite their excellent performance on these tasks, recent work has noted that these models usually do not fully capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Noah Weber , Leena Shekhar , Niranjan Balasubramanian

Message passing neural networks (MPNN) have seen a steep rise in popularity since their introduction as generalizations of convolutional neural networks to graph-structured data, and are now considered state-of-the-art tools for solving a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Sohir Maskey , Ron Levie , Yunseok Lee , Gitta Kutyniok

Generalization beyond a training dataset is a main goal of machine learning, but theoretical understanding of generalization remains an open problem for many models. The need for a new theory is exacerbated by recent observations in deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-08 Abdulkadir Canatar , Blake Bordelon , Cengiz Pehlevan