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A quantum neural network (QNN) is a parameterized mapping efficiently implementable on near-term Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. It can be used for supervised learning when combined with classical gradient-based…

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One of the chronic problems of deep-learning models is shortcut learning. In a case where the majority of training data are dominated by a certain feature, neural networks prefer to learn such a feature even if the feature is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jinwoo Lim , Suhyun Kim , Soo-Mook Moon

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

State-of-the-art neural networks are heavily over-parameterized, making the optimization algorithm a crucial ingredient for learning predictive models with good generalization properties. A recent line of work has shown that in a certain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-01 Alberto Bietti , Julien Mairal

This paper establishes rates of universal approximation for the shallow neural tangent kernel (NTK): network weights are only allowed microscopic changes from random initialization, which entails that activations are mostly unchanged, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ziwei Ji , Matus Telgarsky , Ruicheng Xian

In this paper, we advance the understanding of neural network training dynamics by examining the intricate interplay of various factors introduced by weight parameters in the initialization process. Motivated by the foundational work of Luo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yuqing Li , Tao Luo , Qixuan Zhou

Sparse neural networks promise efficiency, yet training them effectively remains a fundamental challenge. Despite advances in pruning methods that create sparse architectures, understanding why some sparse structures are better trainable…

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Graph neural tangent kernels give a principled infinite-width theory for graph neural networks, but inherit a basic limitation of graph models: they see only pairwise structure. Many relational systems contain higher-order interactions that…

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We analyze the dynamics of finite width effects in wide but finite feature learning neural networks. Starting from a dynamical mean field theory description of infinite width deep neural network kernel and prediction dynamics, we provide a…

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The underlying mechanism of neural networks in capturing precise knowledge has been the subject of consistent research efforts. In this work, we propose a theoretical approach based on Neural Tangent Kernels (NTKs) to investigate such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Xiaobing Sun , Jiaxi Li , Wei Lu

An interesting observation in artificial neural networks is their favorable generalization error despite typically being extremely overparameterized. It is well known that the classical statistical learning methods often result in vacuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Sattar Vakili , Michael Bromberg , Jezabel Garcia , Da-shan Shiu , Alberto Bernacchia

We perform a study on the generalization ability of the wide two-layer ReLU neural network on $\mathbb{R}$. We first establish some spectral properties of the neural tangent kernel (NTK): $a)$ $K_{d}$, the NTK defined on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$,…

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Catastrophic forgetting is one of the fundamental issues of continual learning because neural networks forget the tasks learned previously when trained on new tasks. The proposed framework is a new path-coordinated framework of continual…

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Deep neural networks' remarkable ability to correctly fit training data when optimized by gradient-based algorithms is yet to be fully understood. Recent theoretical results explain the convergence for ReLU networks that are wider than…

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Recently, theoretical analyses of deep neural networks have broadly focused on two directions: 1) Providing insight into neural network training by SGD in the limit of infinite hidden-layer width and infinitesimally small learning rate…

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Deep neural networks have become essential for numerous applications due to their strong empirical performance such as vision, RL, and classification. Unfortunately, these networks are quite difficult to interpret, and this limits their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Sina Alemohammad , Hossein Babaei , CJ Barberan , Naiming Liu , Lorenzo Luzi , Blake Mason , Richard G. Baraniuk

Recent theoretical work has shown that massively overparameterized neural networks are equivalent to kernel regressors that use Neural Tangent Kernels(NTK). Experiments show that these kernel methods perform similarly to real neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Amnon Geifman , Abhay Yadav , Yoni Kasten , Meirav Galun , David Jacobs , Ronen Basri

Empirical neural tangent kernels (eNTKs) can provide a good understanding of a given network's representation: they are often far less expensive to compute and applicable more broadly than infinite width NTKs. For networks with O output…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-08 Mohamad Amin Mohamadi , Wonho Bae , Danica J. Sutherland

Adversarial training (AT) is a canonical method for enhancing the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, recent studies empirically demonstrated that it suffers from robust overfitting, i.e., a long time AT can be detrimental…

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