arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7
A Complete Symmetry Classification of Shallow ReLU Networks
arXiv:2604. 14037v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parameter space is not function space for neural network architectures.
Parameter symmetries determine representational geometry in overparameterized nonlinear networks
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4
Beyond Structural Symmetries: Linear Mode Connectivity via Neuron Identifiability
arXiv:2606. 04754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many striking phenomena in deep learning, such as linear mode connectivity and the structured behavior of training dynamics, are closely tied to parameter symmetries: transformations that leave the realized function unchanged.
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Aug 12
Reducing Symmetry Increase in Equivariant Neural Networks
Equivariant Neural Networks (ENNs) have empowered numerous applications in scientific fields. Despite their remarkable capacity for representing geometric structures, ENNs suffer from degraded expressivity when processing symmetric inputs: the output representations are invariant to transformations that extend beyond the input's symmetries.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13
Reducing Symmetry Increase in Equivariant Neural Networks
arXiv:2608. 12010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equivariant Neural Networks (ENNs) have empowered numerous applications in scientific fields.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10
Conservation Laws from Data Symmetry in Neural Networks
arXiv:2606. 10913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We explore whether intrinsic symmetries of the training data lead to conserved quantities during gradient-flow training of neural networks.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3
Emergence of Fibrations, Compression, and Symmetry Breaking in Artificial Neural Networks
Artificial neural networks generate local symmetries called fibrations and coverings during learning, and these covering symmetries are stable attractors of stochastic gradient descent. The study shows that such symmetries appear across diverse architectures—multilayer, convolutional, recurrent, and transformer networks—and can be exploited for drastic model compression, reducing networks to 17% of their original size without performance loss. Controlled breaking of covering symmetry further improves continual learning, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10
Equivariant Sparse Autoencoders: Mechanistic Interpretability of Neural Networks on Symmetric Data
arXiv:2511. 09432v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning (ML) models achieve remarkable performance but remain hard to interpret due to their scale and complexity.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26
Parameter-Level Attribution of Symmetry in Trained Networks Though Parameter-Wise Functional Sensitivity
arXiv:2608.24700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a network has learned a function with a known symmetry, can that symmetry be moved through the parametrisation---is there a motion in parameter sp...
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25
Pointwise Generalization in Deep Neural Networks
The paper introduces a pointwise generalization theory for fully connected deep neural networks, using a pointwise Riemannian Dimension derived from eigenvalues of learned feature representations across layers. This framework provides hypothesis-dependent, representation-aware generalization bounds that are significantly tighter than traditional size- or norm-based approaches, both theoretically and experimentally. The authors analytically identify structural properties that explain deep networks’ tractability and empirically show that the pointwise Riemannian Dimension captures feature compression, over‑parameterization effects, and optimizer bias.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1
Low-dimensional topology of deep neural networks
arXiv:2606. 31856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study layered models, including feedforward networks, ResNets, and transformers, by limiting each layer to a width of $d = 3$, i.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26
Revenge of Monosemanticity: Specialized Neurons Improve Data Efficiency in MLPs
arXiv:2608.24007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how neural networks learn and organize features is central to understanding their behavior. Much existing theory of feature learning has...
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11
Revenge of Monosemanticity: Neuron Specialization as a New Form of Feature Learning in MLPs
The paper investigates how multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) learn features in regression tasks with clustered data. It finds that instead of forming a single global low‑dimensional representation, MLPs develop monosemantic specialized neurons—each neuron aligns strongly with a specific predictive feature relevant to a particular region of the input space. This specialization results in a collection of local low‑dimensional representations, giving MLPs a provable data‑efficiency advantage over methods that rely on a global representation.