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The $\mu$-parameterization ($\mu$P) provides a principled foundation for large language model (LLM) training by prescribing width-independent learning dynamics, which in turn enables predictable scaling behavior and robust hyperparameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 John Zhao

Hyperparameter transfer across model architectures dramatically reduces the amount of compute necessary for tuning large language models (LLMs). The maximal update parameterization ({\mu}P) ensures transfer through principled mathematical…

Hyperparameter tuning can dramatically impact training stability and final performance of large-scale models. Recent works on neural network parameterisations, such as $\mu$P, have enabled transfer of optimal global hyperparameters across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Bruno Mlodozeniec , Pierre Ablin , Louis Béthune , Dan Busbridge , Michal Klein , Jason Ramapuram , Marco Cuturi

The Maximal Update Parametrization ($\mu$P) aims to make the optimal hyperparameters (HPs) of a model independent of its size, allowing them to be swept using a cheap proxy model rather than the full-size target model. We present a new…

The growing scale of deep learning models has rendered standard hyperparameter (HP) optimization prohibitively expensive. A promising solution is the use of scale-aware hyperparameters, which can enable direct transfer of optimal HPs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Nikhil Ghosh , Denny Wu , Alberto Bietti

Choosing an appropriate learning rate remains a key challenge in scaling depth of modern deep networks. The classical maximal update parameterization ($\mu$P) enforces a fixed per-layer update magnitude, which is well suited to homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Haosong Zhang , Shenxi Wu , Yichi Zhang , Xi Chen , Wei Lin

Deeper modern architectures are costly to train, making hyperparameter transfer preferable to expensive repeated tuning. Maximal Update Parametrization ($\mu$P) helps explain why many hyperparameters transfer across width. Yet depth scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shenxi Wu , Haosong Zhang , Xingjian Ma , Shirui Bian , Yichi Zhang , Xi Chen , Wei Lin

The cost of hyperparameter tuning in deep learning has been rising with model sizes, prompting practitioners to find new tuning methods using a proxy of smaller networks. One such proposal uses $\mu$P parameterized networks, where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-11 Blake Bordelon , Lorenzo Noci , Mufan Bill Li , Boris Hanin , Cengiz Pehlevan

Several challenges make it difficult for sparse neural networks to compete with dense models. First, setting a large fraction of weights to zero impairs forward and gradient signal propagation. Second, sparse studies often need to test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Nolan Dey , Shane Bergsma , Joel Hestness

Empirical scaling laws prescribe how to allocate parameters, data, and compute, while maximal-update parameterization ($\mu$P) enables learning-rate transfer across widths by equalizing early-time update magnitudes. However, in modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhiyuan Fan , Yifeng Liu , Qingyue Zhao , Angela Yuan , Quanquan Gu

Shape matching is a fundamental task in computer graphics and vision, with deep functional maps becoming a prominent paradigm. However, existing methods primarily focus on learning informative feature representations by constraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Feifan Luo , Hongyang Chen

We consider the problem of how many samples from a Gaussian multi-index model are required to weakly reconstruct the relevant index subspace. Despite its increasing popularity as a testbed for investigating the computational complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Leonardo Defilippis , Yatin Dandi , Pierre Mergny , Florent Krzakala , Bruno Loureiro

The successful training of deep neural networks requires addressing challenges such as overfitting, numerical instabilities leading to divergence, and increasing variance in the residual stream. A common solution is to apply regularization…

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We develop a unified matrix-spectral framework for analyzing stability and interpretability in deep neural networks. Representing networks as data-dependent products of linear operators reveals spectral quantities governing sensitivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ronald Katende

We establish four structural results for feature learning in wide two-layer neural networks under the Maximal Update Parametrization ($\mu$P). First, we prove global existence and uniqueness of the mean-field limit of noisy gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Akmal Xodarev

Retaining spatial characteristics of panchromatic image and spectral information of multispectral bands is a critical issue in pansharpening. This paper proposes a pyramid based deep fusion framework that preserves spectral and spatial…

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Dimensionality reduction is critical for deploying dense retrieval systems at scale, yet mainstream post-hoc methods face a fundamental trade-off: principal component analysis (PCA) preserves dominant variance but underutilizes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yongkang Li , Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Evangelos Kanoulas

Spectral algorithms leverage spectral regularization techniques to analyze and process data, providing a flexible framework for addressing supervised learning problems. To deepen our understanding of their performance in real-world…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-23 Jun Fan , Zheng-Chu Guo , Lei Shi

In this article, we propose p and hp least-squares spectral element methods for one-dimensional elliptic boundary layer problems. Stability estimates are derived and we design numerical schemes based on minimizing the residuals in the sense…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Akhlaq Husain , Aliya Kazmi , Subhashree Mohapatra , Ziya Uddin

Hypernetworks, neural networks that predict the parameters of another neural network, are powerful models that have been successfully used in diverse applications from image generation to multi-task learning. Unfortunately, existing…

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