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There are many surprising and perhaps counter-intuitive properties of optimization of deep neural networks. We propose and experimentally verify a unified phenomenological model of the loss landscape that incorporates many of them. High…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Stanislav Fort , Stanislaw Jastrzebski

Deep learning is the mainstream technique for many machine learning tasks, including image recognition, machine translation, speech recognition, and so on. It has outperformed conventional methods in various fields and achieved great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , David Xianfeng Gu

In this work, we develop new generalization bounds for neural networks trained on data supported on Riemannian manifolds. Existing generalization theories often rely on complexity measures derived from Euclidean geometry, which fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Krisanu Sarkar

Characterizing the loss of a neural network with respect to model parameters, i.e., the loss landscape, can provide valuable insights into properties of that model. Various methods for visualizing loss landscapes have been proposed, but…

Non-Euclidean constraints are inherent in many kinds of data in computer vision and machine learning, typically as a result of specific invariance requirements that need to be respected during high-level inference. Often, these geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Suhas Lohit , Pavan Turaga

It is widely observed that deep learning models with learned parameters generalize well, even with much more model parameters than the number of training samples. We systematically investigate the underlying reasons why deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Lei Wu , Zhanxing Zhu , Weinan E

When training overparameterized deep networks for classification tasks, it has been widely observed that the learned features exhibit a so-called "neural collapse" phenomenon. More specifically, for the output features of the penultimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Can Yaras , Peng Wang , Zhihui Zhu , Laura Balzano , Qing Qu

Recent methods in geometric deep learning have introduced various neural networks to operate over data that lie on Riemannian manifolds. Such networks are often necessary to learn well over graphs with a hierarchical structure or to learn…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-17 Isay Katsman , Eric Ming Chen , Sidhanth Holalkere , Anna Asch , Aaron Lou , Ser-Nam Lim , Christopher De Sa

Although Deep Learning (DL) has achieved success in complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks, it suffers from various notorious problems (e.g., feature redundancy, and vanishing or exploding gradients), since updating parameters in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yanhong Fei , Xian Wei , Yingjie Liu , Zhengyu Li , Mingsong Chen

Deep generative models like variational autoencoders approximate the intrinsic geometry of high dimensional data manifolds by learning low-dimensional latent-space variables and an embedding function. The geometric properties of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Ankita Shukla , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Saket Anand , Pavan Turaga

Deep neural networks are workhorse models in machine learning with multiple layers of non-linear functions composed in series. Their loss function is highly non-convex, yet empirically even gradient descent minimisation is sufficient to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-18 Simon Becker , Yao Zhang , Alpha A. Lee

In machine learning, a loss function measures the difference between model predictions and ground-truth (or target) values. For neural network models, visualizing how this loss changes as model parameters are varied can provide insights…

Deep neural networks have been demonstrated to achieve phenomenal success in many domains, and yet their inner mechanisms are not well understood. In this paper, we investigate the curvature of image manifolds, i.e., the manifold deviation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Ilya Kaufman , Omri Azencot

Modern machine learning increasingly leverages the insight that high-dimensional data often lie near low-dimensional, non-linear manifolds, an idea known as the manifold hypothesis. By explicitly modeling the geometric structure of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Willem Diepeveen , Deanna Needell

We show that learning can be improved by using loss functions that evolve cyclically during training to emphasize one class at a time. In underparameterized networks, such dynamical loss functions can lead to successful training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Miguel Ruiz-Garcia , Ge Zhang , Samuel S. Schoenholz , Andrea J. Liu

Deep neural networks have reshaped modern machine learning by learning powerful latent representations that often align with the manifold hypothesis: high-dimensional data lie on lower-dimensional manifolds. In this paper, we establish a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Nico Pelleriti , Max Zimmer , Elias Wirth , Sebastian Pokutta

Training a neural network requires navigating a high-dimensional, non-convex loss surface to find parameters that minimize this loss. In many ways, it is surprising that optimizers such as stochastic gradient descent and ADAM can reliably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Conor Rowan , Finn Murphy-Blanchard

A complete understanding of the widely used over-parameterized deep networks is a key step for AI. In this work we try to give a geometric picture of over-parameterized deep networks using our geometrization scheme. We show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Xiao Dong , Ling Zhou

Transformer models have consistently achieved remarkable results in various domains such as natural language processing and computer vision. However, despite ongoing research efforts to better understand these models, the field still lacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ilya Kaufman , Omri Azencot

The clear understanding of the non-convex landscape of neural network is a complex incomplete problem. This paper studies the landscape of linear (residual) network, the simplified version of the nonlinear network. By treating the gradient…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Xiuyi Yang
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