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Neural collapse (NC) is a phenomenon that emerges at the terminal phase of the training (TPT) of deep neural networks (DNNs). The features of the data in the same class collapse to their respective sample means and the sample means exhibit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-09 Wanli Hong , Shuyang Ling

Feature Learning aims to extract relevant information contained in data sets in an automated fashion. It is driving force behind the current deep learning trend, a set of methods that have had widespread empirical success. What is lacking…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 Brendan van Rooyen , Robert C. Williamson

Recent years have witnessed the huge success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various tasks of computer vision and text processing. Interestingly, these DNNs with massive number of parameters share similar structural properties on their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-26 Wanli Hong , Shuyang Ling

We aim to develop a fundamental understanding of modality collapse, a recently observed empirical phenomenon wherein models trained for multimodal fusion tend to rely only on a subset of the modalities, ignoring the rest. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Abhra Chaudhuri , Anjan Dutta , Tu Bui , Serban Georgescu

In self-supervised representation learning, a common idea behind most of the state-of-the-art approaches is to enforce the robustness of the representations to predefined augmentations. A potential issue of this idea is the existence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Tianyu Hua , Wenxiao Wang , Zihui Xue , Sucheng Ren , Yue Wang , Hang Zhao

This paper introduces a new technique to measure the feature dependency of neural network models. The motivation is to better understand a model by querying whether it is using information from human-understandable features, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yinzhu Jin , Matthew B. Dwyer , P. Thomas Fletcher

A neural network with fixed topology can be regarded as a parametrization of functions, which decides on the correlations between functional variations when parameters are adapted. We propose an analysis, based on a differential geometry…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Toussaint

In this paper, we extend original Neural Collapse Phenomenon by proving Generalized Neural Collapse hypothesis. We obtain Grassmannian Frame structure from the optimization and generalization of classification. This structure maximally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Peifeng Gao , Qianqian Xu , Peisong Wen , Huiyang Shao , Zhiyong Yang , Qingming Huang

Neural Collapse (NC) is a geometric structure recently observed at the terminal phase of training deep neural networks, which states that last-layer feature vectors for the same class would "collapse" to a single point, while features of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Leyan Pan , Xinyuan Cao

Representing a word by its co-occurrences with other words in context is an effective way to capture the meaning of the word. However, the theory behind remains a challenge. In this work, taking the example of a word classification task, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Yanpeng Li

Feature-learning deep nets progressively collapse data to a regular low-dimensional geometry. How this emerges from the collective action of nonlinearity, noise, learning rate, and other factors, has eluded first-principles theories built…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-30 Cheng Shi , Liming Pan , Ivan Dokmanić

Object detection and recognition are fundamental functions underlying the success of species. Because the appearance of an object exhibits a large variability, the brain has to group these different stimuli under the same object identity, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Faris B. Rustom , Haluk Öğmen , Arash Yazdanbakhsh

Morphological declension, which aims to inflect nouns to indicate number, case and gender, is an important task in natural language processing (NLP). This research proposal seeks to address the degree to which Recurrent Neural Networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Sina Ahmadi

Humans develop their grammars by making structural generalizations from finite input. We ask how filler-gap dependencies, which share a structural generalization despite diverse surface forms, might arise from the input. We explicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Katherine Howitt , Sathvik Nair , Allison Dods , Robert Melvin Hopkins

Catastrophic forgetting is a major problem in continual learning, and lots of approaches arise to reduce it. However, most of them are evaluated through task accuracy, which ignores the internal model structure. Recent research suggests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yunqin Zhu , Jun Jin

Neural Collapse is a phenomenon where the last-layer representations of a well-trained neural network converge to a highly structured geometry. In this paper, we focus on its first (and most basic) property, known as NC1: the within-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Diyuan Wu , Marco Mondelli

Contrastive learning is a self-supervised representation learning framework, where two positive views generated through data augmentation are made similar by an attraction force in a data representation space, while a repulsive force makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Han Bao

That shared features between train and test data are required for generalisation in artificial neural networks has been a common assumption of both proponents and critics of these models. Here, we show that convolutional architectures avoid…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jeff Mitchell , Jeffrey S. Bowers

Morphological inflection is a popular task in sub-word NLP with both practical and cognitive applications. For years now, state-of-the-art systems have reported high, but also highly variable, performance across data sets and languages. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jordan Kodner , Sarah Payne , Salam Khalifa , Zoey Liu

Memorisation is a natural part of learning from real-world data: neural models pick up on atypical input-output combinations and store those training examples in their parameter space. That this happens is well-known, but how and where are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Verna Dankers , Ivan Titov