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Many image processing tasks involve image-to-image mapping, which can be addressed well by fully convolutional networks (FCN) without any heavy preprocessing. Although empirically designing and training FCNs can achieve satisfactory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Jianjie Lu , Kai-yu Tong

In the context of deep learning models, attention has recently been paid to studying the surface of the loss function in order to better understand training with methods based on gradient descent. This search for an appropriate description,…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful models for graph-structured data, with broad applications. However, the interplay between GNN parameter optimization, expressivity, and generalization remains poorly understood. We address this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Samir Moustafa , Lorenz Kummer , Simon Fetzel , Nils M. Kriege , Wilfried N. Gansterer

There is a growing body of work that leverages features extracted via topological data analysis to train machine learning models. While this field, sometimes known as topological machine learning (TML), has seen some notable successes, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Sarah McGuire , Shane Jackson , Tegan Emerson , Henry Kvinge

Optimization methods play a crucial role in modern machine learning, powering the remarkable empirical achievements of deep learning models. These successes are even more remarkable given the complex non-convex nature of the loss landscape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Rustem Islamov , Niccolò Ajroldi , Antonio Orvieto , Aurelien Lucchi

This work investigates the impact of the loss function on the performance of Neural Networks, in the context of a monocular, RGB-only, image localization task. A common technique used when regressing a camera's pose from an image is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Isaac Ronald Ward , M. A. Asim K. Jalwana , Mohammed Bennamoun

Neural networks encode inputs as high-dimensional vectors, known as representations, that capture how models process data by encoding task-relevant structure and semantics. Representation alignment refers to the degree to which different…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xinyuan Yan , Rita Sevastjanova , Mennatallah El-Assady , Bei Wang

Deep learning involves navigating a high-dimensional loss landscape over the neural network parameter space. Over the course of training, complex computational structures form and re-form inside the neural network, leading to shifts in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jesse Hoogland , George Wang , Matthew Farrugia-Roberts , Liam Carroll , Susan Wei , Daniel Murfet

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

Learning representations of neural network weights given a model zoo is an emerging and challenging area with many potential applications from model inspection, to neural architecture search or knowledge distillation. Recently, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Konstantin Schürholt , Boris Knyazev , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto , Damian Borth

Loss function learning is a new meta-learning paradigm that aims to automate the essential task of designing a loss function for a machine learning model. Existing techniques for loss function learning have shown promising results, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

The presence of linear paths in parameter space between two different network solutions in certain cases, i.e., linear mode connectivity (LMC), has garnered interest from both theoretical and practical fronts. There has been significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sidak Pal Singh , Linara Adilova , Michael Kamp , Asja Fischer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Thomas Hofmann

The success of deep neural networks hinges on our ability to accurately and efficiently optimize high-dimensional, non-convex functions. In this paper, we empirically investigate the loss functions of state-of-the-art networks, and how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Michael Tao , Kristin Branson

Despite significant advances in the field of deep learning in applications to various fields, explaining the inner processes of deep learning models remains an important and open question. The purpose of this article is to describe and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 German Magai , Anton Ayzenberg

Neural volume rendering became increasingly popular recently due to its success in synthesizing novel views of a scene from a sparse set of input images. So far, the geometry learned by neural volume rendering techniques was modeled using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Lior Yariv , Jiatao Gu , Yoni Kasten , Yaron Lipman

We propose TopDis (Topological Disentanglement), a method for learning disentangled representations via adding a multi-scale topological loss term. Disentanglement is a crucial property of data representations substantial for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Nikita Balabin , Daria Voronkova , Ilya Trofimov , Evgeny Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

Many machine learning methods operate by inverting a neural network at inference time, which has become a popular technique for solving inverse problems in computer vision, robotics, and graphics. However, these methods often involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruoshi Liu , Chengzhi Mao , Purva Tendulkar , Hao Wang , Carl Vondrick

Analyzing geometric properties of high-dimensional loss functions, such as local curvature and the existence of other optima around a certain point in loss space, can help provide a better understanding of the interplay between neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Lucas Böttcher , Gregory Wheeler

In this paper, we propose a method to perform empirical analysis of the loss landscape of machine learning (ML) models. The method is applied to two ML models for scientific sensing, which necessitates quantization to be deployed and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Tommaso Baldi , Javier Campos , Olivia Weng , Caleb Geniesse , Nhan Tran , Ryan Kastner , Alessandro Biondi

In recent years, deep perceptual loss has been widely and successfully used to train machine learning models for many computer vision tasks, including image synthesis, segmentation, and autoencoding. Deep perceptual loss is a type of loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Konstantina Nikolaidou , Prakash Chandra Chhipa , Nosheen Abid , Rajkumar Saini , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki