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We study the training process of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) from the Fourier analysis perspective. We demonstrate a very universal Frequency Principle (F-Principle) -- DNNs often fit target functions from low to high frequencies -- on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yaoyu Zhang , Tao Luo , Yanyang Xiao , Zheng Ma

Why deep neural networks (DNNs) capable of overfitting often generalize well in practice is a mystery [#zhang2016understanding]. To find a potential mechanism, we focus on the study of implicit biases underlying the training process of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yaoyu Zhang , Yanyang Xiao

Frequency perspective recently makes progress in understanding deep learning. It has been widely verified in both empirical and theoretical studies that deep neural networks (DNNs) often fit the target function from low to high frequency,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Yuheng Ma , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Jiwei Zhang

Along with fruitful applications of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to realistic problems, recently, some empirical studies of DNNs reported a universal phenomenon of Frequency Principle (F-Principle): a DNN tends to learn a target function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Tao Luo , Zheng Ma , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yaoyu Zhang

Previous studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) with common settings often capture target functions from low to high frequency, which is called Frequency Principle (F-Principle). It has also been shown that F-Principle can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Zhi-Qin John Xu

It remains a puzzle that why deep neural networks (DNNs), with more parameters than samples, often generalize well. An attempt of understanding this puzzle is to discover implicit biases underlying the training process of DNNs, such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yaoyu Zhang , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Tao Luo , Zheng Ma

Understanding the effect of depth in deep learning is a critical problem. In this work, we utilize the Fourier analysis to empirically provide a promising mechanism to understand why feedforward deeper learning is faster. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Zhi-Qin John Xu , Hanxu Zhou

Quantum neural networks constitute a key class of near-term quantum learning models, yet their training dynamics remain not fully understood. Here, we present a unified theoretical framework for the frequency principle (F-principle) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Rundi Lu , Ruiqi Zhang , Weikang Li , Zhaohui Wei , Dong-Ling Deng , Zhengwei Liu

The mechanism governing the training dynamics of Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) remains under-explored. In classical Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), training is dominated by "Spectral Bias," i.e. prioritizing learning low-frequency components…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Yi-hang Xu , Dan-Bo Zhang , Junchi Yan

Recent works show an intriguing phenomenon of Frequency Principle (F-Principle) that deep neural networks (DNNs) fit the target function from low to high frequency during the training, which provides insight into the training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Tao Luo , Zheng Ma , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yaoyu Zhang

Deep neural network (DNN) usually learns the target function from low to high frequency, which is called frequency principle or spectral bias. This frequency principle sheds light on a high-frequency curse of DNNs -- difficult to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tao Luo , Zheng Ma , Zhiwei Wang , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yaoyu Zhang

Recent works have shown that traditional Neural Network (NN) architectures display a marked frequency bias in the learning process. Namely, the NN first learns the low-frequency features before learning the high-frequency ones. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Juan Molina , Mircea Petrache , Francisco Sahli Costabal , Matías Courdurier

Deep neural networks (DNNs) suffer from the spectral bias, wherein DNNs typically exhibit a tendency to prioritize the learning of lower-frequency components of a function, struggling to capture its high-frequency features. This paper is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ronglong Fang , Yuesheng Xu

Background: It is still an open research area to theoretically understand why Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)---equipped with many more parameters than training data and trained by (stochastic) gradient-based methods---often achieve remarkably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Zhiqin John Xu

Over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) with sufficient capacity to memorize random noise can achieve excellent generalization performance, challenging the bias-variance trade-off in classical learning theory. Recent studies claimed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xiao Zhang , Haoyi Xiong , Dongrui Wu

Machine learning applied to computer vision and signal processing is achieving results comparable to the human brain on specific tasks due to the great improvements brought by the deep neural networks (DNN). The majority of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 José Augusto Stuchi , Levy Boccato , Romis Attux

Despite their ability to represent highly expressive functions, deep learning models seem to find simple solutions that generalize surprisingly well. Spectral bias -- the tendency of neural networks to prioritize learning low frequency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Sara Fridovich-Keil , Raphael Gontijo-Lopes , Rebecca Roelofs

Value approximation using deep neural networks is at the heart of off-policy deep reinforcement learning, and is often the primary module that provides learning signals to the rest of the algorithm. While multi-layer perceptron networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Ge Yang , Anurag Ajay , Pulkit Agrawal

An intriguing phenomenon observed during training neural networks is the spectral bias, which states that neural networks are biased towards learning less complex functions. The priority of learning functions with low complexity might be at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yuan Cao , Zhiying Fang , Yue Wu , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Quanquan Gu

CNNs exhibit many behaviors different from humans, one of which is the capability of employing high-frequency components. This paper discusses the frequency bias phenomenon in image classification tasks: the high-frequency components are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhiyu Lin , Yifei Gao , Jitao Sang
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