arXiv Machine Learning

TESLA: Taylor Expansion of Sinusoidal Learnable Activations

arXiv:2608. 11970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The parity problem--deciding whether the number of ones in a binary vector is odd or even--remains challenging for standard neural networks due to linear inseparability and the need for global interactions.

arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

Stable initialization without the CLT

The paper introduces a new method called uniform‑phase initialization for deep neural networks with sine activations, eliminating the need for the Central Limit Theorem and fully decoupling layers. This approach avoids distributional approximation errors and coupling between layers, leading to stable weight initialization. Experiments show that models using this initialization outperform state‑of‑the‑art methods on image and audio fitting tasks and remain competitive without tuning, while also supporting μP width scaling.

By Simon Kuang, Kyle Chickering, Xinfan Lin