arXiv Machine Learning

Randomly initialized autoencoders: fixed points and edge-of-chaos

arXiv:2608. 14638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper we study autoencoders, a special class of deep neural nets (DNNs) whose performance can be characterized via their fixed points.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

How Controlling the Variance can Improve Training Stability of Sparsely Activated DNNs and CNNs

arXiv:2602. 05779v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Edge-of-Chaos (EoC) theory developed for the random initialization of deep networks allows more efficient training by both preserving information in the initial outputs of the network and minimising exploding or vanishing gradients through characterisation of the intermediate layers as Gaussian processes.

By Emily Dent, Jared Tanner
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Correlation flow governs learning at criticality

arXiv:2608. 08350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The initialisation of deep neural networks determines whether information and gradients can propagate across depth, yet a unified theory connecting these properties to learning dynamics remains elusive.

By Andrea Combette, Nelly Pustelnik, Antoine Venaille
arXiv Statistics ML
Aug 31

The role of parameter Jacobians in the stability of network outputs

The paper investigates how parameter Jacobians influence the stability of network outputs within the framework of network dynamics, learning models, and neural tangent kernels (NTK). It demonstrates that linearized dynamics can be expressed as a semigroup of linear operators on Hilbert spaces, and provides explicit a priori perturbation bounds for fixed‑kernel linearizations in the NTK setting. The authors also offer refinements for task‑specific spaces, ergodic comparison estimates, spectral‑distribution conditions, and extensions to nonautonomous NTK evolutions, supported by worked examples.

By Halyun Jeong, Palle E. T. Jorgensen, Hyun-Kyoung Kwon, Myung-Sin Song, James Tian