arXiv Machine Learning

Fourier Multi-Component and Multi-Layer Neural Networks: Unlocking High-Frequency Potential

arXiv:2502. 18959v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The architecture of a neural network and the choice of its activation function are both fundamental to its performance.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Theory of the Frequency Principle for General Deep Neural Networks

arXiv:1906. 09235v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Along with fruitful applications of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to realistic problems, recently, some empirical studies of DNNs reported a universal phenomenon of Frequency Principle (F-Principle): a DNN tends to learn a target function from low to high frequencies during the training.

By Tao Luo, Zheng Ma, Zhi-Qin John Xu, Yaoyu Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

Stable initialization without the CLT

The paper introduces a new method called uniform‑phase initialization for deep neural networks with sine activations, eliminating the need for the Central Limit Theorem and fully decoupling layers. This approach avoids distributional approximation errors and coupling between layers, leading to stable weight initialization. Experiments show that models using this initialization outperform state‑of‑the‑art methods on image and audio fitting tasks and remain competitive without tuning, while also supporting μP width scaling.

By Simon Kuang, Kyle Chickering, Xinfan Lin