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Theoretical understanding of deep learning is one of the most important tasks facing the statistics and machine learning communities. While deep neural networks (DNNs) originated as engineering methods and models of biological networks in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-04 Adam S. Charles

For four decades statistical physics has been providing a framework to analyse neural networks. A long-standing question remained on its capacity to tackle deep learning models capturing rich feature learning effects, thus going beyond the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-15 Jean Barbier , Francesco Camilli , Minh-Toan Nguyen , Mauro Pastore , Rudy Skerk

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful tools for compressing and distilling information. Their scale and complexity, often involving billions of inter-dependent parameters, render direct microscopic analysis difficult. Under such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-26 Inbar Seroussi , Gadi Naveh , Zohar Ringel

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have known an important rise in popularity. However, although they are state-of-the-art in many machine learning challenges, they still suffer from several limitations. For example, DNNs require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Carlos Lassance , Myriam Bontonou , Mounia Hamidouche , Bastien Pasdeloup , Lucas Drumetz , Vincent Gripon

We investigate how neural networks (NNs) understand physics using 1D quantum mechanics. After training an NN to accurately predict energy eigenvalues from potentials, we used it to confirm the NN's understanding of physics from four…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Kenzo Ogure

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be represented as graphs whose links and vertices iteratively process data and solve tasks sub-optimally. Complex Network Theory (CNT), merging statistical physics with graph theory, provides a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Emanuele La Malfa , Gabriele La Malfa , Giuseppe Nicosia , Vito Latora

This paper proposes a new perspective for analyzing the generalization power of deep neural networks (DNNs), i.e., directly disentangling and analyzing the dynamics of generalizable and non-generalizable interaction encoded by a DNN through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuxuan He , Junpeng Zhang , Lei Cheng , Hongyuan Zhang , Quanshi Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) in the infinite width/channel limit have received much attention recently, as they provide a clear analytical window to deep learning via mappings to Gaussian Processes (GPs). Despite its theoretical appeal, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Gadi Naveh , Zohar Ringel

Deep learning algorithms are growing in popularity in the field of exoplanetary science due to their ability to model highly non-linear relations and solve interesting problems in a data-driven manner. Several works have attempted to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-26 Kai Hou Yip , Quentin Changeat , Nikolaos Nikolaou , Mario Morvan , Billy Edwards , Ingo P. Waldmann , Giovanna Tinetti

For three decades statistical mechanics has been providing a framework to analyse neural networks. However, the theoretically tractable models, e.g., perceptrons, random features models and kernel machines, or multi-index models and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Jean Barbier , Francesco Camilli , Minh-Toan Nguyen , Mauro Pastore , Rudy Skerk

The success of deep learning in many real-world tasks has triggered an intense effort to understand the power and limitations of deep learning in the training and generalization of complex tasks, so far with limited progress. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Qianyi Li , Haim Sompolinsky

Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained for image denoising are able to generate high-quality samples with score-based reverse diffusion algorithms. These impressive capabilities seem to imply an escape from the curse of dimensionality, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Florentin Guth , Eero P. Simoncelli , Stéphane Mallat

An antithetical concept, adaptive symmetry, to conservative symmetry in physics is proposed to understand the deep neural networks (DNNs). It characterizes the invariance of variance, where a biotic system explores different pathways of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shawn W. M. Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have set benchmarks on a wide array of supervised learning tasks. Trained DNNs, however, often lack robustness to minor adversarial perturbations to the input, which undermines their true practicality. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Farzan Farnia , Jesse M. Zhang , David Tse

It is commonly believed that the hidden layers of deep neural networks (DNNs) attempt to extract informative features for learning tasks. In this paper, we formalize this intuition by showing that the features extracted by DNN coincide with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Shao-Lun Huang , Xiangxiang Xu , Lizhong Zheng , Gregory W. Wornell

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used in pattern-recognition tasks for which a human comprehensible, quantitative description of the data-generating process, e.g., in the form of equations, cannot be achieved. While doing so, DNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Antoine Garcon , Julian Vexler , Dmitry Budker , Stefan Kramer

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the most widely adopted model in graph-structured data oriented learning and representation. Despite their extraordinary success in real-world applications, understanding their working mechanism by theory is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

We analyze numerically the training dynamics of deep neural networks (DNN) by using methods developed in statistical physics of glassy systems. The two main issues we address are (1) the complexity of the loss landscape and of the dynamics…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-23 M. Baity-Jesi , L. Sagun , M. Geiger , S. Spigler , G. Ben Arous , C. Cammarota , Y. LeCun , M. Wyart , G. Biroli

This paper focuses on understanding how the generalization error scales with the amount of the training data for deep neural networks (DNNs). Existing techniques in statistical learning require computation of capacity measures, such as VC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Devansh Bisla , Apoorva Nandini Saridena , Anna Choromanska

This extended abstract describes a framework for analyzing the expressiveness, learning, and (structural) generalization of hypergraph neural networks (HyperGNNs). Specifically, we focus on how HyperGNNs can learn from finite datasets and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zhezheng Luo , Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Leslie Pack Kaelbling