arXiv:2602. 10031v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly divided into message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) and spectral GNNs, reflecting two largely separate research traditions in machine learning and signal processing.
By Antonis Vasileiou, Juan Cervino, Pascal Frossard, Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis, Christopher Morris, Michael T. Schaub, Pierre Vandergheynst, Zhiyang Wang, Guy Wolf, Ron Levie
arXiv:2607. 05017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The performance of deep learning models crucially depends on the settings of hyperparameters like learning rate, initialization scale, and weight decay.
By Gage DeZoort, Boris Hanin
arXiv:2606. 04583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many researchers investigated neural networks with some of their weights fixed to values randomly drawn from a given distribution, e.
By Ethem Alpaydin
The paper introduces Neural Low-Degree Filtering (Neural LoFi), a stylized limit of gradient-based training that turns hierarchical feature learning into an explicit iterative spectral procedure. In this framework, each layer independently selects directions with maximal low-degree correlation to the label, providing a tractable surrogate for deep learning and a kernel-space interpretation. Experiments on fully connected and convolutional networks show that Neural LoFi outperforms lazy random-feature baselines, recovers meaningful structured filters, and aligns with early gradient-descent feature discovery on real datasets.
By Yatin Dandi, Matteo Vilucchio, Luca Arnaboldi, Hugo Tabanelli, Florent Krzakala
arXiv:2606. 24956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spectral graph neural networks (GNNs) interpret message passing as frequency-selective filtering.
By Ranhui Yan, Jia Cai, Mengzhu Chen, Haodong Yang
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.
By Daehwa Ko, Jaehyeon Kim, Seunghyun Ham, Jay Hoon Jung
arXiv:2408.02111v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Despite the extreme popularity of deep learning in science and industry, its formal understanding is limited. This thesis puts forth notions...
By Noam Razin
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.
By Shaojie Li, Yunbei Xu
Positional encodings (PEs) enhance the power of graph neural networks (GNNs), both theoretically and empirically. Two of the most popular families of PEs - spectral (e.
arXiv:2605. 31244v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural scaling laws describe predictable power-law relationships between model size, dataset size, compute, and performance.
By Konstantin Nikolaou, Jonas Scheunemann, Sven Krippendorf, Samuel Tovey, Christian Holm
arXiv:2607. 13246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Muon has recently emerged as a strong optimizer for large-scale deep learning, where it reshapes gradient updates through approximate orthogonalization and has been reported to outperform Adam and AdamW in large language model training.
By Ali Parviz, Gal Mishne, Alex Cloninger
Muon has recently emerged as a strong optimizer for large-scale deep learning, where it reshapes gradient updates through approximate orthogonalization and has been reported to outperform Adam and AdamW in large language model training. Its empirical success has motivated a growing body of theoretical work that interprets Muon as steepest descent under the spectral norm.