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In the open world, detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data, whose labels are disjoint with those of in-distribution (ID) samples, is important for reliable deep neural networks (DNNs). To achieve better detection performance, one type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yingwen Wu , Ruiji Yu , Xinwen Cheng , Zhengbao He , Xiaolin Huang

Recent studies on Neural Collapse (NC) reveal that, under class-balanced conditions, the class feature means and classifier weights spontaneously align into a simplex equiangular tight frame (ETF). In long-tailed regimes, however, severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jinping Wang , Zhiqiang Gao , Zhiwu Xie

Among many mysteries behind the success of deep networks lies the exceptional discriminative power of their learned representations as manifested by the intriguing Neural Collapse (NC) phenomenon, where simple feature structures emerge at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Hancheng Min , Zhihui Zhu , René Vidal

Supervised classification has a theoretical optimum, Neural Collapse (NC), yet neither of its two dominant paradigms reaches it in practice. Cross entropy (CE) leaves radial degrees of freedom unconstrained and converges to a degenerate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Panagiotis Koromilas , Theodoros Giannakopoulos , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Yannis Panagakis

The focal-loss has become a widely used alternative to cross-entropy in class-imbalanced classification problems, particularly in computer vision. Despite its empirical success, a systematic information-theoretic study of the focal-loss…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jaimin Shah , Martina Cardone , Alex Dytso

Nowadays, deep learning methods, especially the convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have shown impressive performance on extracting abstract and high-level features from the hyperspectral image. However, general training process of CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zhiqiang Gong , Ping Zhong , Weidong Hu

We study the ability of foundation models to learn representations for classification that are transferable to new, unseen classes. Recent results in the literature show that representations learned by a single classifier over many classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Tomer Galanti , András György , Marcus Hutter

Neural Collapse refers to the curious phenomenon in the end of training of a neural network, where feature vectors and classification weights converge to a very simple geometrical arrangement (a simplex). While it has been observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jingtong Su , Ya Shi Zhang , Nikolaos Tsilivis , Julia Kempe

Low dimensional structures appear ubiquitously in the eigenspectra of deep learning matrices in classification networks trained in the overparameterized regime. While theoretical advances have aimed to explain this phenomenology, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Connall Garrod , Jonathan P. Keating

When training a neural network for classification, the feature vectors of the training set are known to collapse to the vertices of a regular simplex, provided the dimension $d$ of the feature space and the number $n$ of classes satisfies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 James Alcala , Rayna Andreeva , Vladimir A. Kobzar , Dustin G. Mixon , Sanghoon Na , Shashank Sule , Yangxinyu Xie

Compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have witnessed exceptional improvements in performance in recent years. However, they still fail to provide the same predictive power as CNNs with a large number of parameters. The diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Lusine Abrahamyan , Valentin Ziatchin , Yiming Chen , Nikos Deligiannis

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

In this paper, we introduce the \textit{Layer-Peeled Model}, a nonconvex yet analytically tractable optimization program, in a quest to better understand deep neural networks that are trained for a sufficiently long time. As the name…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Cong Fang , Hangfeng He , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Even though Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely celebrated for their practical performance, they possess many intriguing properties related to depth that are difficult to explain both theoretically and intuitively. Understanding how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Christopher Snyder , Sriram Vishwanath

Although overparameterized models have achieved remarkable practical success, their theoretical properties, particularly their generalization behavior, remain incompletely understood. The well known double descents phenomenon suggests that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Haoran Zhan , Yingcun Xia

There is a recently discovered and intriguing phenomenon called Neural Collapse: at the terminal phase of training a deep neural network for classification, the within-class penultimate feature means and the associated classifier vectors of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Tong Liang , Jim Davis

Deep neural networks have recently achieved notable progress in 3D point cloud recognition, yet their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations poses critical security challenges in practical deployments. Conventional defense mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuanmin Huang , Wenxuan Li , Mi Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Xiaoyu You , Min Yang

The success of deep convolutional neural network (CNN) in computer vision especially image classification problems requests a new information theory for function of image, instead of image itself. In this article, after establishing a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Ya-Hui Zhang

The recently discovered Neural collapse (NC) phenomenon states that the last-layer weights of Deep Neural Networks (DNN), converge to the so-called Equiangular Tight Frame (ETF) simplex, at the terminal phase of their training. This ETF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Hafiz Tiomoko Ali , Umberto Michieli , Ji Joong Moon , Daehyun Kim , Mete Ozay

One challenging property lurking in medical datasets is the imbalanced data distribution, where the frequency of the samples between the different classes is not balanced. Training a model on an imbalanced dataset can introduce unique…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Ashkan Khakzar , Yawei Li , Yang Zhang , Mirac Sanisoglu , Seong Tae Kim , Mina Rezaei , Bernd Bischl , Nassir Navab