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An important characteristic of neural networks is their ability to learn representations of the input data with effective features for prediction, which is believed to be a key factor to their superior empirical performance. To better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Zhenmei Shi , Junyi Wei , Yingyu Liang

We present a weight similarity measure method that can quantify the weight similarity of non-convex neural networks. To understand the weight similarity of different trained models, we propose to extract the feature representation from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Guangcong Wang , Guangrun Wang , Wenqi Liang , Jianhuang Lai

We propose an empirical approach centered on the spectral dynamics of weights -- the behavior of singular values and vectors during optimization -- to unify and clarify several phenomena in deep learning. We identify a consistent bias in…

A key property of neural networks is their capacity of adapting to data during training. Yet, our current mathematical understanding of feature learning and its relationship to generalization remain limited. In this work, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-25 Yatin Dandi , Luca Pesce , Hugo Cui , Florent Krzakala , Yue M. Lu , Bruno Loureiro

Network representation learning (NRL) is an effective graph analytics technique and promotes users to deeply understand the hidden characteristics of graph data. It has been successfully applied in many real-world tasks related to network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ke Sun , Lei Wang , Bo Xu , Wenhong Zhao , Shyh Wei Teng , Feng Xia

Learning tasks such as those involving genomic data often poses a serious challenge: the number of input features can be orders of magnitude larger than the number of training examples, making it difficult to avoid overfitting, even when…

Understanding the mechanism of how convolutional neural networks learn features from image data is a fundamental problem in machine learning and computer vision. In this work, we identify such a mechanism. We posit the Convolutional Neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-04 Daniel Beaglehole , Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Parthe Pandit , Mikhail Belkin

Understanding feature learning is an important open question in establishing a mathematical foundation for deep neural networks. The Neural Feature Ansatz (NFA) states that after training, the Gram matrix of the first-layer weights of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Edward Tansley , Estelle Massart , Coralia Cartis

Natural Language Processing enables computers to understand human language by analysing and classifying text efficiently with deep-level grammatical and semantic features. Existing models capture features by learning from large corpora with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Azrin Sultana , Firoz Ahmed

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various application domains. Nevertheless, a large number of weights in pre-trained deep neural networks prohibit them from being deployed on smartphones and embedded systems. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Shibo Yao , Dantong Yu , Ioannis Koutis

Deep learning uses neural networks which are parameterised by their weights. The neural networks are usually trained by tuning the weights to directly minimise a given loss function. In this paper we propose to re-parameterise the weights…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Michael Fairbank , Spyridon Samothrakis , Luca Citi

Neural networks that process the parameters of other neural networks find applications in domains as diverse as classifying implicit neural representations, generating neural network weights, and predicting generalization errors. However,…

We analyze an algorithm for assigning weights prior to scalarization in discrete multi-objective problems arising from data analysis. The algorithm evolves weights (interpreted as the relevance of features) by a replicator-type dynamic on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Aris Daniilidis , Alberto Domínguez Corella , Philipp Wissgott

This paper introduces feature gradient flow, a new technique for interpreting deep learning models in terms of features that are understandable to humans. The gradient flow of a model locally defines nonlinear coordinates in the input data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Yinzhu Jin , Jonathan C. Garneau , P. Thomas Fletcher

The dynamics of gradient-based training in neural networks often exhibit nontrivial structures; hence, understanding them remains a central challenge in theoretical machine learning. In particular, a concept of feature unlearning, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shota Imai , Sota Nishiyama , Masaaki Imaizumi

Deep learning has been wildly successful in practice and most state-of-the-art machine learning methods are based on neural networks. Lacking, however, is a rigorous mathematical theory that adequately explains the amazing performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

In this paper, we propose to exploit the rich hierarchical features of deep convolutional neural networks to improve the accuracy and robustness of visual tracking. Deep neural networks trained on object recognition datasets consist of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chao Ma , Jia-Bin Huang , Xiaokang Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn abstract features to perform object classification, but understanding these features remains challenging due to difficult-to-interpret results or high computational costs. We propose an automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Maren H. Wehrheim , Pamela Osuna-Vargas , Matthias Kaschube

A long-standing goal in deep learning has been to characterize the learning behavior of black-box models in a more interpretable manner. For graph neural networks (GNNs), considerable advances have been made in formalizing what functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chenxiao Yang , Qitian Wu , David Wipf , Ruoyu Sun , Junchi Yan

Deep Learning has become one of the primary research areas in developing intelligent machines. Most of the well-known applications (such as Speech Recognition, Image Processing and NLP) of AI are driven by Deep Learning. Deep Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Saurav Musunuru , Jay N. Paranjape , Rahul Kumar Dubey , Vijendran G. Venkoparao