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This paper systematically explores neural functional networks (NFN) for transformer architectures. NFN are specialized neural networks that treat the weights, gradients, or sparsity patterns of a deep neural network (DNN) as input data and…

Permutation symmetries of deep networks make basic operations like model merging and similarity estimation challenging. In many cases, aligning the weights of the networks, i.e., finding optimal permutations between their weights, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik , Nadav Dym , Haggai Maron

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) sequentially process data by updating their state with each new data point, and have long been the de facto choice for sequence modeling tasks. However, their inherently sequential computation makes them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Mostafa Dehghani , Stephan Gouws , Oriol Vinyals , Jakob Uszkoreit , Łukasz Kaiser

Convolutions encode equivariance symmetries into neural networks leading to better generalisation performance. However, symmetries provide fixed hard constraints on the functions a network can represent, need to be specified in advance, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Alexander Immer , Mark van der Wilk

Quantum neural network architectures that have little-to-no inductive biases are known to face trainability and generalization issues. Inspired by a similar problem, recent breakthroughs in machine learning address this challenge by…

We devise a new type of feedforward neural network. It is equivariant with respect to the unitary group $U(n)$. The input and output can be vectors in $\mathbb{C}^n$ with arbitrary dimension $n$. No convolution layer is required in our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Pui-Wai Ma , T. -H. Hubert Chan

Neural operators, serving as physics surrogate models, have recently gained increased interest. With ever increasing problem complexity, the natural question arises: what is an efficient way to scale neural operators to larger and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Benedikt Alkin , Andreas Fürst , Simon Schmid , Lukas Gruber , Markus Holzleitner , Johannes Brandstetter

The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nathaniel Virgo , Olaf Witkowski , Hidetoshi Aoki , Ryota Kanai

Classical neural network approximation results take the form: for every function $f$ and every error tolerance $\epsilon > 0$, one constructs a neural network whose architecture and weights depend on $\epsilon$. This paper introduces a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Clemens Hutter , Valentin Abadie , Helmut Bölcskei

Deep neural networks have been extensively studied for undersampled MRI reconstruction. While achieving state-of-the-art performance, they are trained and deployed specifically for one anatomy with limited generalization ability to another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xinwen Liu , Jing Wang , Feng Liu , S. Kevin Zhou

Symmetry learning has proven to be an effective approach for extracting the hidden structure of data, with the concept of equivariance relation playing the central role. However, most of the current studies are built on architectural theory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-15 Masanori Koyama , Kenji Fukumizu , Kohei Hayashi , Takeru Miyato

A very popular model in machine learning is the feedforward neural network (FFN). The FFN can approximate general functions and mitigate the curse of dimensionality. Here we introduce FFNs which represent sections of holomorphic line…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Michael R. Douglas

Traditional supervised learning aims to learn an unknown mapping by fitting a function to a set of input-output pairs with a fixed dimension. The fitted function is then defined on inputs of the same dimension. However, in many settings,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Eitan Levin , Mateo Díaz

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), especially message-passing neural networks (MPNNs), have emerged as powerful architectures for learning on graphs in diverse applications. However, MPNNs face challenges when modeling non-local interactions in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-31 Ilyes Batatia , Lars L. Schaaf , Huajie Chen , Gábor Csányi , Christoph Ortner , Felix A. Faber

Many learning tasks, including learning potential energy surfaces from ab initio calculations, involve global spatial symmetries and permutational symmetry between atoms or general particles. Equivariant graph neural networks are a standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zimu Li , Zihan Pengmei , Han Zheng , Erik Thiede , Junyu Liu , Risi Kondor

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been successful in processing data signals that are uniformly sampled in the spatial domain (e.g., images). However, most data signals do not natively exist on a grid, and in the process of being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Dequan Wang , Jingwei Huang , Philip Marcus , Matthias Nießner

The universal approximation theorem establishes that neural networks can approximate any continuous function on a compact set. Later works in approximation theory provide quantitative approximation rates for ReLU networks on the class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jonathan W. Siegel , Snir Hordan , Hannah Lawrence , Ali Syed , Nadav Dym

A key challenge in complex visuomotor control is learning abstract representations that are effective for specifying goals, planning, and generalization. To this end, we introduce universal planning networks (UPN). UPNs embed differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Aravind Srinivas , Allan Jabri , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

This paper introduces a new learning paradigm termed Neural Metamorphosis (NeuMeta), which aims to build self-morphable neural networks. Contrary to crafting separate models for different architectures or sizes, NeuMeta directly learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Xingyi Yang , Xinchao Wang

Neural functional networks (NFNs) have recently gained significant attention due to their diverse applications, ranging from predicting network generalization and network editing to classifying implicit neural representation. Previous NFN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Viet-Hoang Tran , Thieu N. Vo , Tho H. Tran , An T. Nguyen , Tan M. Nguyen