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Deep learning has achieved impressive performance across various medical imaging tasks. However, its inherent bias against specific groups hinders its clinical applicability in equitable healthcare systems. A recently discovered phenomenon,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Kaouther Mouheb , Marawan Elbatel , Stefan Klein , Esther E. Bron

Neural collapse is a highly symmetric geometric pattern of neural networks that emerges during the terminal phase of training, with profound implications on the generalization performance and robustness of the trained networks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Wenlong Ji , Yiping Lu , Yiliang Zhang , Zhun Deng , Weijie J. Su

Although overparameterized models have achieved remarkable practical success, their theoretical properties, particularly their generalization behavior, remain incompletely understood. The well known double descents phenomenon suggests that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Haoran Zhan , Yingcun Xia

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) currently achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in image classification. With a growing number of classes, the accuracy usually drops as the possibilities of confusion increase. Interestingly, the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Bilal Alsallakh , Amin Jourabloo , Mao Ye , Xiaoming Liu , Liu Ren

Current research in Computer Vision has shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) give state-of-the-art performance in many classification tasks and Computer Vision problems. The embedding of CNN, which is the internal representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Axel Angel

The notion of neural collapse refers to several emergent phenomena that have been empirically observed across various canonical classification problems. During the terminal phase of training a deep neural network, the feature embedding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Duc Anh Nguyen , Ron Levie , Julian Lienen , Gitta Kutyniok , Eyke Hüllermeier

Neural networks have been successfully used for classification tasks in a rapidly growing number of practical applications. Despite their popularity and widespread use, there are still many aspects of training and classification that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Ewout van den Berg

When training a neural network for classification, the feature vectors of the training set are known to collapse to the vertices of a regular simplex, provided the dimension $d$ of the feature space and the number $n$ of classes satisfies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 James Alcala , Rayna Andreeva , Vladimir A. Kobzar , Dustin G. Mixon , Sanghoon Na , Shashank Sule , Yangxinyu Xie

Predictions made by deep neural networks were shown to be highly sensitive to small changes made in the input space where such maliciously crafted data points containing small perturbations are being referred to as adversarial examples. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Utku Ozbulak , Manvel Gasparyan , Shodhan Rao , Wesley De Neve , Arnout Van Messem

The recently discovered Neural collapse (NC) phenomenon states that the last-layer weights of Deep Neural Networks (DNN), converge to the so-called Equiangular Tight Frame (ETF) simplex, at the terminal phase of their training. This ETF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Hafiz Tiomoko Ali , Umberto Michieli , Ji Joong Moon , Daehyun Kim , Mete Ozay

This work identifies the existence and cause of a type of posterior collapse that frequently occurs in the Bayesian deep learning practice. For a general linear latent variable model that includes linear variational autoencoders as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Zihao Wang , Liu Ziyin

Feature spaces in the deep layers of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are often very high-dimensional and difficult to interpret. However, convolutional layers consist of multiple channels that are activated by different types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 David Bonet , Antonio Ortega , Javier Ruiz-Hidalgo , Sarath Shekkizhar

Randomized Neural Networks explore the behavior of neural systems where the majority of connections are fixed, either in a stochastic or a deterministic fashion. Typical examples of such systems consist of multi-layered neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Claudio Gallicchio , Simone Scardapane

We study the ability of foundation models to learn representations for classification that are transferable to new, unseen classes. Recent results in the literature show that representations learned by a single classifier over many classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Tomer Galanti , András György , Marcus Hutter

Over the past decade, deep learning has proven to be a highly effective tool for learning meaningful features from raw data. However, it remains an open question how deep networks perform hierarchical feature learning across layers. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Peng Wang , Xiao Li , Can Yaras , Zhihui Zhu , Laura Balzano , Wei Hu , Qing Qu

Neural networks have been very successful in many applications; we often, however, lack a theoretical understanding of what the neural networks are actually learning. This problem emerges when trying to generalise to new data sets. The…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Matthew Thorpe , Yves van Gennip

Handling the ever-increasing scale of contemporary deep learning and transformer-based models poses a significant challenge. Overparameterized Transformer networks outperform prior art in Natural Language processing and Computer Vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Soheil Zibakhsh Shabgahi , Mohammad Sohail Shariff , Farinaz Koushanfar

This paper explores the connection between two recently identified phenomena in deep learning: plasticity loss and neural collapse. We analyze their correlation in different scenarios, revealing a significant association during the initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Guglielmo Bonifazi , Iason Chalas , Gian Hess , Jakub Łucki

When neural networks are trained to classify a dataset, one finds a set of weights from which the network produces a label for each data point. We study the algorithmic complexity of finding a collision in a single-layer neural net, where a…

Neural collapse is a phenomenon observed during the terminal phase of neural network training, characterized by the convergence of network activations, class means, and linear classifier weights to a simplex equiangular tight frame (ETF), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Emily Liu