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In modern deep learning, algorithmic choices (such as width, depth, and learning rate) are known to modulate nuanced resource tradeoffs. This work investigates how these complexities necessarily arise for feature learning in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Benjamin L. Edelman , Surbhi Goel , Sham Kakade , Eran Malach , Cyril Zhang

We study parameter estimation in Nonlinear Factor Analysis (NFA) where the generative model is parameterized by a deep neural network. Recent work has focused on learning such models using inference (or recognition) networks; we identify a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-18 Rahul G. Krishnan , Dawen Liang , Matthew Hoffman

We study two factors in neural network training: data parallelism and sparsity; here, data parallelism means processing training data in parallel using distributed systems (or equivalently increasing batch size), so that training can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Namhoon Lee , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Philip H. S. Torr , Martin Jaggi

Integrating task-relevant information into neural representations is a fundamental ability of both biological and artificial intelligence systems. Recent theories have categorized learning into two regimes: the rich regime, where neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Chi-Ning Chou , Hang Le , Yichen Wang , SueYeon Chung

Deep neural networks with lots of parameters are typically used for large-scale computer vision tasks such as image classification. This is a result of using dense matrix multiplications and convolutions. However, sparse computations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Suraj Srinivas , Akshayvarun Subramanya , R. Venkatesh Babu

Overfitting is one of the most common problems when training deep neural networks on comparatively small datasets. Here, we demonstrate that neural network activation sparsity is a reliable indicator for overfitting which we utilize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Karim Huesmann , Soeren Klemm , Lars Linsen , Benjamin Risse

Sparse Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for efficient feature selection. Leveraging the dynamic sparse training (DST) algorithms within SNNs has demonstrated promising feature selection capabilities while drastically…

Overfitting is one of the fundamental challenges when training convolutional neural networks and is usually identified by a diverging training and test loss. The underlying dynamics of how the flow of activations induce overfitting is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Karim Huesmann , Luis Garcia Rodriguez , Lars Linsen , Benjamin Risse

Implicit neural representations are a promising new avenue of representing general signals by learning a continuous function that, parameterized as a neural network, maps the domain of a signal to its codomain; the mapping from spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jaeho Lee , Jihoon Tack , Namhoon Lee , Jinwoo Shin

It is well known that direct training of deep neural networks will generally lead to poor results. A major progress in recent years is the invention of various pretraining methods to initialize network parameters and it was shown that such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Jun Li , Wei Luo , Jian Yang , Xiaotong Yuan

Obtaining versions of deep neural networks that are both highly-accurate and highly-sparse is one of the main challenges in the area of model compression, and several high-performance pruning techniques have been investigated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Denis Kuznedelev , Eldar Kurtic , Eugenia Iofinova , Elias Frantar , Alexandra Peste , Dan Alistarh

Random feature methods have been successful in various machine learning tasks, are easy to compute, and come with theoretical accuracy bounds. They serve as an alternative approach to standard neural networks since they can represent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-21 Abolfazl Hashemi , Hayden Schaeffer , Robert Shi , Ufuk Topcu , Giang Tran , Rachel Ward

In order to better understand feature learning in neural networks, we propose a framework for understanding linear models in tangent feature space where the features are allowed to be transformed during training. We consider linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Daniel LeJeune , Sina Alemohammad

Deep learning has been applied to various tasks in the field of machine learning and has shown superiority to other common procedures such as kernel methods. To provide a better theoretical understanding of the reasons for its success, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Satoshi Hayakawa , Taiji Suzuki

Sparse neural networks are mainly motivated by ressource efficiency since they use fewer parameters than their dense counterparts but still reach comparable accuracies. This article empirically investigates whether sparsity could also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Antoine Gonon , Léon Zheng , Clément Lalanne , Quoc-Tung Le , Guillaume Lauga , Can Pouliquen

An important characteristic of neural networks is their ability to learn representations of the input data with effective features for prediction, which is believed to be a key factor to their superior empirical performance. To better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Zhenmei Shi , Junyi Wei , Yingyu Liang

Fourier embedding has shown great promise in removing spectral bias during neural network training. However, it can still suffer from high generalization errors, especially when the labels or measurements are noisy. We demonstrate that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Halyun Jeong , Jihun Han

Neoteric works have shown that modern deep learning models can exhibit a sparse double descent phenomenon. Indeed, as the sparsity of the model increases, the test performance first worsens since the model is overfitting the training data;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Victor Quétu , Enzo Tartaglione

Successful deep learning models often involve training neural network architectures that contain more parameters than the number of training samples. Such overparametrized models have been extensively studied in recent years, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Hamed Hassani , Adel Javanmard

Deep neural networks (NNs) are known to lack uncertainty estimates and struggle to incorporate new data. We present a method that mitigates these issues by converting NNs from weight space to function space, via a dual parameterization.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-06 Aidan Scannell , Riccardo Mereu , Paul Chang , Ella Tamir , Joni Pajarinen , Arno Solin