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A convolutional layer in a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) consists of many filters which apply convolution operation to the input, capture some special patterns and pass the result to the next layer. If the same patterns also occur at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Okan Köpüklü , Maryam Babaee , Stefan Hörmann , Gerhard Rigoll

This paper presents a new family of backpropagation-free neural architectures, Gated Linear Networks (GLNs). What distinguishes GLNs from contemporary neural networks is the distributed and local nature of their credit assignment mechanism;…

This work proposes an approach for latent-dynamics learning that exactly enforces physical conservation laws. The method comprises two steps. First, the method computes a low-dimensional embedding of the high-dimensional dynamical-system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Kookjin Lee , Kevin Carlberg

Predicting when a chaotic trajectory will switch between the lobes of the Lorenz attractor is a long-standing challenge in nonlinear dynamics. This work shows that algebraic conservation laws, constructed by augmenting phase space with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-09 B. A. Toledo

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized artificial intelligence, yet a principled theoretical understanding of its internal mechanisms remains elusive. This paper introduces a novel analytical framework that reconceptualizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yukun Zhang , Xueqing Zhou

The reservoir computing networks (RCNs) have been successfully employed as a tool in learning and complex decision-making tasks. Despite their efficiency and low training cost, practical applications of RCNs rely heavily on empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Wei Miao , Vignesh Narayanan , Jr-Shin Li

The transparent formulation of explanation methods is essential for elucidating the predictions of neural networks, which are typically black-box models. Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) is a well-established method that transparently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Seitaro Otsuki , Tsumugi Iida , Félix Doublet , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi , Komei Sugiura

In recent years, transformer architectures have revolutionized the field of language processing, opening the door to previously unforeseen possibilities. However, from a theoretical point of view, the mathematical models proposed in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Alex Massucco , Leonardo Del Grande , Marcello Carioni , Christoph Brune , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We investigate the parameterization of deep neural networks that by design satisfy the continuity equation, a fundamental conservation law. This is enabled by the observation that any solution of the continuity equation can be represented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jack Richter-Powell , Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen

In a traditional convolutional layer, the learned filters stay fixed after training. In contrast, we introduce a new framework, the Dynamic Filter Network, where filters are generated dynamically conditioned on an input. We show that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Bert De Brabandere , Xu Jia , Tinne Tuytelaars , Luc Van Gool

We study the learning ability of linear recurrent neural networks with Gradient Descent. We prove the first theoretical guarantee on linear RNNs to learn any stable linear dynamic system using any a large type of loss functions. For an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Lifu Wang , Tianyu Wang , Shengwei Yi , Bo Shen , Bo Hu , Xing Cao

Autoregressive learning of time-stepping operators provides an effective approach to data-driven partial differential equation (PDE) simulation, yet for conservation laws, they face a fundamental challenge: learned updates may violate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Zishuo Lan , Junjie Li , Lei Wang , Jincheng Wang

Transformers empirically perform precise probabilistic reasoning in carefully constructed ``Bayesian wind tunnels'' and in large-scale language models, yet the mechanisms by which gradient-based learning creates the required internal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Naman Agarwal , Siddhartha R. Dalal , Vishal Misra

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has revolutionized computer vision, but training very deep networks has been challenging due to the vanishing gradient problem. This paper explores Residual Networks (ResNet), introduced by He et al.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xingyu Liu , Kun Ming Goh

Neural networks can approximate solutions to partial differential equations, but they often break the very laws they are meant to model-creating mass from nowhere, drifting shocks, or violating conservation and entropy. We address this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Mainak Singha

Residual networks (ResNets) are a deep learning architecture that substantially improved the state of the art performance in certain supervised learning tasks. Since then, they have received continuously growing attention. ResNets have a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Johannes Müller

Learning a task induces connectivity changes in neural circuits, thereby changing their dynamics. To elucidate task related neural dynamics we study trained Recurrent Neural Networks. We develop a Mean Field Theory for Reservoir Computing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-28 Alexander Rivkind , Omri Barak

While training error of most deep neural networks degrades as the depth of the network increases, residual networks appear to be an exception. We show that the main reason for this is the Lyapunov stability of the gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Kamil Nar , Shankar Sastry

Scattering transforms are non-trainable deep convolutional architectures that exploit the multi-scale resolution of a wavelet filter bank to obtain an appropriate representation of data. More importantly, they are proven invariant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Fernando Gama , Joan Bruna , Alejandro Ribeiro

The implicit bias induced by the training of neural networks has become a topic of rigorous study. In the limit of gradient flow and gradient descent with appropriate step size, it has been shown that when one trains a deep linear network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Thien Le , Stefanie Jegelka