arXiv:2606. 29043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sharpness and complexity are two central factors in the generalization analysis of deep neural networks.
By Ziyu Cheng, Xitong Zhang, Longxiu Huang, Rongrong Wang
arXiv:2603. 00742v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Adam has long been the ubiquitous default optimizer for deep neural networks, Muon has recently seen rapid adoption due to its superior training speed.
By Sara Dragutinovi\'c, Yedi Zhang, Rajesh Ranganath
arXiv:2608. 03386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary deep learning methods generalize well even when they fit their training data perfectly, a phenomenon known as benign interpolation.
By Tom F. Sterkenburg, Daniel A. Herrmann, Jan-Willem Romeijn
arXiv:2607. 05546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a unified function space theory of deep fully connected neural networks.
By Julia Nakhleh, Robert D. Nowak
arXiv:2605. 09609v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We provide counterexamples to the unimodal minimal filling architecture conjecture for polynomial neural networks (PNNs) with power activation functions.
By Kevin Dao, Jose Israel Rodriguez
The paper demonstrates that tree tensor networks (TTNs) can encode arbitrary read‑once Boolean formulas, yielding polynomial‑size targets that are hard for gradient descent to learn in polynomial time, yet their loss landscapes are conditionally benign: every minimum‑norm local minimum is global. This shows that bad local minima are not the source of learning difficulty in TTNs; instead, high‑order degenerate saddle points caused by rank‑deficiency can impede learning. A case study on the parity function illustrates how TTNs can link landscape geometry to computational hardness.
By Zach Furman, Stephan W\"aldchen, Yangda Bei, Liam Hodgkinson