arXiv Machine Learning

Gauge-Fixing the Forward-Forward Objective: A Whitened Goodness Derived from a Likelihood-Ratio Account

arXiv:2607. 12501v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Forward-Forward algorithm trains each layer locally, so that a scalar goodness - the sum of squared activations - is high on real inputs and low on contrastive ones.

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Jun 28

Dead-Direction Conditioners: Gauge-Equivariant Preconditioning for Deep Networks

A deep network's loss is invariant to continuous symmetries of its parameters: the logit shift, the ReLU rescaling, the LayerNorm scale, the per-head attention rotation. Adam's per-coordinate preconditioner drifts along each symmetry orbit, which pulls the trajectory off the symmetry quotient where the optimization lives and blurs the singular-learning rate the quotient makes readable.

arXiv AI
2d ago

On-Device Named-Entity Recognition: A Deployability Study of Accuracy, Cost, Reliability, and Confidence

The paper evaluates nine on‑device named‑entity recognition models ranging from classical taggers to large language models, measuring not only accuracy but also latency and output validity. Using a silver‑gold benchmark derived from an LLM judge panel and a human‑validated corpus, the study shows that encoder‑based models achieve comparable accuracy to a 4 B instruct LLM while being much smaller, faster, and producing no malformed output. Confidence calibration of GLiNER is analyzed, revealing over‑confidence but improved reliability after temperature scaling and thresholding.

By Vinay Kumar Chaganti
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Why Does Train-Validation Separation Emerge? Update-Pressure Density Dynamics in Pretrained Backbones

The paper investigates why the train‑validation performance gap widens during fine‑tuning of pretrained models. It proposes a dynamic structural explanation: as training proceeds, updates shift from broadly reusable features to more example‑specific ones, increasing gradient heterogeneity and the gap. Experiments on synthetic ResMLP hierarchies, NLP models (RoBERTa, DeBERTa, Qwen) across six datasets, and vision models (ResNet‑18) confirm that higher reliance on private features correlates with larger accuracy gaps, supporting the proposed account.

By Yuchen Li, Mingyu Du, Zongqi Fan, Ken-Tye Yong, Nguyen H. Tran
arXiv AI
Jun 29

Applicability of memorization indicators for early spotting of overfitting while recalibrating sEMG-decoders on low sample sizes

arXiv:2606. 27855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning models for surface electromyography (sEMG) can benefit substantially from subject-specific (re-)calibration, since no sufficiently large and diverse datasets are available to train fully generic decoders.

By Stephan J. Lehmler, Tobias Glasmachers, Ioannis Iossifidis