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It is well-known that the Hessian of deep loss landscape matters to optimization, generalization, and even robustness of deep learning. Recent works empirically discovered that the Hessian spectrum in deep learning has a two-component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Zeke Xie , Qian-Yuan Tang , Yunfeng Cai , Mingming Sun , Ping Li

When trained on large-scale object classification datasets, certain artificial neural network models begin to approximate core object recognition behaviors and neural response patterns in the primate brain. While recent machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Abdulkadir Gokce , Martin Schrimpf

Modern LLM pre-training consumes vast amounts of compute and training data, making the scaling behavior, or scaling laws, of different models a key distinguishing factor. Discrete diffusion language models (DLMs) have been proposed as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Dimitri von Rütte , Janis Fluri , Omead Pooladzandi , Bernhard Schölkopf , Thomas Hofmann , Antonio Orvieto

Training deep neural networks typically relies on backpropagating high dimensional error signals a computationally intensive process with little evidence supporting its implementation in the brain. However, since most tasks involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Maher Hanut , Jonathan Kadmon

Neural Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) based models are powerful and interpretable approaches to neuro-symbolic learning and have shown promising results in classification and reinforcement learning settings without prior knowledge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Kexin Gu Baugh , Vincent Perreault , Matthew Baugh , Luke Dickens , Katsumi Inoue , Alessandra Russo

Power flow analysis plays a critical role in the control and operation of power systems. The high computational burden of traditional solution methods led to a shift towards data-driven approaches, exploiting the availability of digital…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Victor Eeckhout , Hossein Fani , Md Umar Hashmi , Geert Deconinck

Neural networks (NNs) are inherently multidimensional classifiers that learn complex, non-linear relationships among input observables. While their flexibility enables unprecedented performance in high-energy physics (HEP) analyses, it also…

In machine learning, the scaling law describes how the model performance improves with the model and data size scaling up. From a learning theory perspective, this class of results establishes upper and lower generalization bounds for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shihong Ding , Haihan Zhang , Hanzhen Zhao , Cong Fang

Large foundation models are typically trained on data from multiple domains, with the data mixture--the proportion of each domain used--playing a critical role in model performance. The standard approach to selecting this mixture relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mustafa Shukor , Louis Bethune , Dan Busbridge , David Grangier , Enrico Fini , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Pierre Ablin

Deep neural networks have proven to be quite effective in a wide variety of machine learning tasks, ranging from improved speech recognition systems to advancing the development of autonomous vehicles. However, despite their superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Lin Lin , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu , Peng Liu , Gang Xiong

The efficacy of interpolating via Variably Scaled Kernels (VSKs) is known to be dependent on the definition of a proper scaling function, but no numerical recipes to construct it are available. Previous works suggest that such a function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Gianluca Audone , Francesco Della Santa , Emma Perracchione , Sandra Pieraccini

Though modern neural networks have achieved impressive performance in both vision and language tasks, we know little about the functions that they implement. One possibility is that neural networks implicitly break down complex tasks into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Michael A. Lepori , Thomas Serre , Ellie Pavlick

Deep Learning (DL) has transformed the automation of a wide range of industries and finds increasing ubiquity in society. The high complexity of DL models and its widespread adoption has led to global energy consumption doubling every 3-4…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Chen Li , Antonios Tsourdos , Weisi Guo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their scalability raises a critical question: Have we reached the scaling ceiling? This paper addresses this pivotal question by developing a unified theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Charles Luo

We study the implicit bias of gradient flow (i.e., gradient descent with infinitesimal step size) on linear neural network training. We propose a tensor formulation of neural networks that includes fully-connected, diagonal, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Chulhee Yun , Shankar Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi

Neural networks can emulate nonlinear physical systems with high accuracy, yet they may produce physically-inconsistent results when violating fundamental constraints. Here, we introduce a systematic way of enforcing nonlinear analytic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Tom Beucler , Michael Pritchard , Stephan Rasp , Jordan Ott , Pierre Baldi , Pierre Gentine

Neural scaling laws approximate a language model's loss as a power-law function of parameter count $N$ and token count $D$. Following Chinchilla-style compute-optimal training, many studies fit scaling laws from runs performed under a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Joshua Shay Kricheli , Alexander Lawrence Reid , Soumajyoti Sarkar , Venkata Gandikota , Paulo Shakarian

Data scaling has revolutionized research fields like natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics control, providing foundation models with remarkable multi-task and generalization capabilities. In this paper, we investigate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Shaohuai Liu , Lin Dong , Chao Tian , Le Xie

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful learning machines that have enabled breakthroughs in several domains. In this work, we introduce a new retrospective loss to improve the training of deep neural network models by utilizing the prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Surgan Jandial , Ayush Chopra , Mausoom Sarkar , Piyush Gupta , Balaji Krishnamurthy , Vineeth Balasubramanian

The guidance of scaling laws has increased the resource demands of modern large language models (LLMs), yet it remains questionable whether these models utilize resources effectively under a fixed budget. Previous research has proved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Wenjie Sun , Jinning Yang , Shuai Zhang , Mengnan Du