arXiv:2606. 16112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Residual architectures are ubiquitous in deep learning, but they suffer from a subtle structural limitation: the norm of the residual stream can grow rapidly with depth.
By Tom\'as Figliolia, Beren Millidge
arXiv:2602. 07494v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deeper modern architectures are costly to train, making hyperparameter transfer preferable to expensive repeated tuning.
By Shenxi Wu, Haosong Zhang, Xingjian Ma, Shirui Bian, Yichi Zhang, Xi Chen, Wei Lin
arXiv:2606. 10324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The analogy between deep neural network forward passes and renormalization group (RG) flows has been repeatedly noted in the literature, but existing treatments remain qualitative: depth is described as a coarse-graining scale, attention is likened to a partition function, and representations are said to flow toward fixed points.
By Parviz Haggi-Mani, Irina Rish
The analogy between deep neural network forward passes and renormalization group (RG) flows has been repeatedly noted in the literature, but existing treatments remain qualitative: depth is described as a coarse-graining scale, attention is likened to a partition function, and representations are said to flow toward fixed points. No existing work has defined a measurable RG order parameter, tested it under controlled variation of the input distribution, or made quantitative predictions that are empirically verified.
arXiv:2606. 31859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residual connections add every sublayer's proposed update with a fixed coefficient of one; the network never evaluates whether an update is reliable before committing it.
By Kyle Kramer
arXiv:2604. 20219v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Depth is widely viewed as a central contributor to the success of deep neural networks, whereas standard neural network approximation theory typically provides guarantees only for the final output and leaves the role of intermediate layers largely unclear.
By Shijun Zhang, Zuowei Shen, Yuesheng Xu
arXiv:2606. 27759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training binary neural networks (BNNs) from scratch is dominated by the straight-through estimator (STE), whose forward/backward mismatch produces severe accuracy degradation as networks deepen.
By Evan Gibson Smith, Bashima Islam
arXiv:2601. 16884v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study multigrade deep learning (MGDL) as a principled framework for structured error refinement in deep neural networks.
By Shijun Zhang, Zuowei Shen, Yuesheng Xu
arXiv:2607. 14018v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate how each component of the Transformer feedforward block architecture design determines how much rank survives across depth at initialization.
By Katie Everett
arXiv:2606. 06772v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Characterizing the optimization dynamics and statistical performance of over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) remains a central challenge in understanding the remarkable success of deep learning.
By Junyu Zhou, Puyu Wang, Dennis Wagner, Yunwen Lei, Marius Kloft, Yiming Ying
arXiv:2511. 04981v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Model depth is a double-edged sword in deep learning: deeper models achieve higher accuracy but require higher computational cost.
By Zhiqi Bu
arXiv:2606. 05599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper establishes a theoretical framework for the uniform convergence of smoothly activated deep neural network (DNN) estimators.
By Yizhe Ding, Runze Li, Jia Liu, Lingzhou Xue