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:2607. 06151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalization remains a pivotal challenge in deep learning, where traditional optimizers like Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) often converge to sharp minima, leading to overfitting and reduced performance on unseen data.
By Yao Fu, Chunxia Zhang, Junmin Liu, Yihang Jin, Haishan Ye, Yuanao Yang
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:2605.15760v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) optimization is most commonly performed using general-purpose first-order optimizers such as Adam or SGD. Although rob...
By Naama Pearl, Stefano Esposito, Haofei Xu, Amit Peleg, Patricia Gschossmann, Lorenzo Porzi, Peter Kontschieder, Gerard Pons-Moll, Andreas Geiger
The paper proposes a new strategy for merging layers in deep neural networks, enabling depth compression without requiring an analytical solution for convolutions with padding and without increasing kernel size. This approach addresses limitations of previous methods that struggled with padded convolutions and larger kernels, and it is validated across various architectures and datasets with measured inference speed-ups on embedded platforms.
By Petro Shulzhenko, Gabriele Spadaro, Enzo Tartaglione
arXiv:2106. 06998v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training convolutional neural networks at scale demands substantial memory, largely because intermediate activations must be stored for backpropagation.
By Anirudh Thatipelli, Jeffrey Sam, Mathias Louboutin, Ali Siahkoohi, Rongrong Wang, Felix J. Herrmann
arXiv:2606. 21497v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern deep neural networks are trained using error backpropagation, which requires sequential forward and backward computations across network layers.
By Neeraj Mohan Sushma, Aditya Nagarsekar, Cabrel Teguemne Fokam, Robin Schiewer, Amit Kumar Pal, Anand Subramoney, David Kappel
SG-Blend introduces a per‑layer adaptive activation that interpolates between a bias‑corrected, parametric Swish variant (SSwish) and GELU, using a learnable blend coefficient, sharpness, and zero‑centering bias. The method adds only three scalars per feed‑forward block and, on BERT‑style IMDB classification, matches peak accuracy while reducing seed‑to‑seed variance by 42 %. It also achieves the lowest validation perplexity on WikiText103 and generalizes to computer vision and other domains.
By Gaurav Sarkar, Syed Affan Daimi, Jay Gala, Subarna Tripathi
arXiv:2402.11215v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The choice of batch size in minibatch stochastic gradient optimization is critical for both optimization and generalization performance in large-sc...
By Tim Tsz-Kit Lau, Han Liu, Mladen Kolar
arXiv:2609.10292v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Data augmentation is fundamental to training modern deep vision and multimodal models. While individual methods, such as RandAug, CutMix, Mixup, RandEr...
By Hyesong Choi, Daeun Kim, Song Park, Taekyung Kim, Byeongho Heo, Sangdoo Yun, Dongbo Min, Dongyoon Han
arXiv:2604. 07822v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study implicit reasoning, i.
By Harsh Kohli, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Huan Sun, Yuekun Yao
The paper introduces NAIMA, a guided depth super‑resolution framework that leverages global contextual semantic priors from pretrained vision transformer token embeddings. Its Guided Token Attention (GTA) module uses depth encodings as queries to attend over semantic tokens, with a zero‑initialized gate controlling the influence of semantic evidence. NAIMA achieves competitive in‑distribution performance while delivering superior cross‑dataset generalization without relying on decoded priors or auxiliary objectives.
By Tayyab Nasir, Daochang Liu, Ajmal Mian