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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

As a general type of machine learning approach, artificial neural networks have established state-of-art benchmarks in many pattern recognition and data analysis tasks. Among various kinds of neural networks architectures, polynomial neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chao Pan , Chuanyi Zhang

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

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

An important inference from Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) theory is the existence of spectral bias (SB), that is, low frequency components of the target function of a fully connected Artificial Neural Network (ANN) being learnt significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Mayank Deshpande , Siddharth Agarwal , Vukka Snigdha , Arya Kumar Bhattacharya

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

Small generalization errors of over-parameterized neural networks (NNs) can be partially explained by the frequency biasing phenomenon, where gradient-based algorithms minimize the low-frequency misfit before reducing the high-frequency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Annan Yu , Yunan Yang , Alex Townsend

Recent works have partly attributed the generalization ability of over-parameterized neural networks to frequency bias -- networks trained with gradient descent on data drawn from a uniform distribution find a low frequency fit before high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Ronen Basri , Meirav Galun , Amnon Geifman , David Jacobs , Yoni Kasten , Shira Kritchman

Spectral bias is an important observation of neural network training, stating that the network will learn a low frequency representation of the target function before converging to higher frequency components. This property is interesting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 John Lazzari , Xiuwen Liu

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

Physics-informed neural network (PINN) algorithms have shown promising results in solving a wide range of problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, they often fail to converge to desirable solutions when the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Ghazal Farhani , Alexander Kazachek , Boyu Wang

Neural networks are known to be a class of highly expressive functions able to fit even random input-output mappings with $100\%$ accuracy. In this work, we present properties of neural networks that complement this aspect of expressivity.…

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

Spectral analysis is a powerful tool, decomposing any function into simpler parts. In machine learning, Mercer's theorem generalizes this idea, providing for any kernel and input distribution a natural basis of functions of increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yatin Dandi , Arthur Jacot

In this review, we survey the latest approaches and techniques developed to overcome the spectral bias towards low frequency of deep neural network learning methods in learning multiple-frequency solutions of partial differential equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Zhi-Qin John Xu , Lulu Zhang , Wei Cai

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are demonstrating remarkable promise in integrating physical models with gappy and noisy observational data, but they still struggle in cases where the target functions to be approximated exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Sifan Wang , Hanwen Wang , Paris Perdikaris

Representing signals using coordinate networks dominates the area of inverse problems recently, and is widely applied in various scientific computing tasks. Still, there exists an issue of spectral bias in coordinate networks, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Zhicheng Cai , Hao Zhu , Qiu Shen , Xinran Wang , Xun Cao

Understanding deep learning is increasingly emergent as it penetrates more and more into industry and science. In recent years, a research line from Fourier analysis sheds lights on this magical "black box" by showing a Frequency Principle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yaoyu Zhang , Tao Luo

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have closer dynamics to the brain than current deep neural networks. Their low power consumption and sample efficiency make these networks interesting. Recently, several deep convolutional spiking neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

Spectral bias is a significant phenomenon in neural network training and can be explained by neural tangent kernel (NTK) theory. In this work, we develop the NTK theory for deep neural networks with physics-informed loss, providing insights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Weiye Gan , Yicheng Li , Qian Lin , Zuoqiang Shi
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