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48 results for Jacobian alignment

GrokAlign aligns Jacobians to accelerate grokking in deep networks.

problem Accelerating the training dynamics of deep networks to avoid delayed generalisation and robustness.
method Aligning the Jacobians of a deep network with the training data to ensure grokking under a low-rank assumption.
result GrokAlign regularizes Jacobians to induce grokking sooner than conventional methods.

The paper develops methods to reduce deployment risk under dynamic covariate shifts.

problem Reduction of deployment risk under dynamic covariate shifts.
method Time-domain Poincare inequality and Jacobian-velocity theorem to identify and control directional tangent energy.
result Drift-aligned tangent regularization (DTR) reduces risk volatility and directional gain in low-rank drift regimes.

New method flattens decision boundary by targeting shortcut-aligned axes in disentangled latent space.

problem Shortcut learning in neural networks, leading to poor out-of-distribution generalization.
method Injects targeted anisotropic noise to regularize classifier sensitivity along shortcut-aligned axes.
result Achieves state-of-the-art OOD performance without shortcut labels or conflicting samples.

The paper improves alignment methods for deep neural networks using geometric and spectral analysis.

problem Improving alignment methods for deep neural networks.
method Geometric and spectral analysis of residual Jacobian chains.
result Deterministic and margin-verified results on the transport of dominant singular subspaces across layers.

A geometric theory explains loss functions for robust representation learning.

problem Treats robustness, domain adaptation, and sensor drift as separate literatures.
method Estimates covariance Sigma_task and uses it to pin Jacobian penalties.
result Proves optimality and necessity of range coverage for penalty matrices.

This study connects Jacobian regularization to adversarial robustness and improves generalization.

problem Adversarial attacks make deep neural networks vulnerable.
method Developed a connection between Jacobian regularization and adversarial training, and established robust generalization gaps.
result Jacobian norms are related to both standard and robust generalization.

This work proves the asymptotic freeness of layerwise Jacobians in MLPs with Haar orthogonal matrices.

problem Proving the asymptotic freeness of layerwise Jacobians in multilayer perceptrons (MLPs).
method Replacing each layer's parameter matrix with itself multiplied by a Haar orthogonal matrix, and using the invariance of the MLP.
result Proves the asymptotic freeness of layerwise Jacobians in MLPs with Haar orthogonal matrices.

Efficiently regularizes deep learning models using Jacobian nuclear norm.

problem Regularizing deep learning models to prevent overfitting and improve generalization.
method Proposes a denoising-style approximation to penalize the Jacobian nuclear norm without computing the Jacobian matrix.
result Demonstrates that penalizing the average squared Frobenius norm of JgJg and JhJh is equivalent to penalizing the Jacobian nuclear norm for function compositions.

Paper improves robustness of GNNs against adversarial attacks.

problem Understanding robust generalization of GNNs in adversarial settings.
method Develops a sensitivity-aware PAC-Bayesian framework for MPGNNs.
result Derives tighter robust generalization bounds for MPGNNs.

A generative model with a disentangled representation allows for independent control over different aspects of the output. Learning disentangled representations has been a recent topic of great interest, but it remains poorly understood. We show that even for GANs that do not possess disentangled representations, one c…

2018-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles Hessian/Jacobian-free stochastic bilevel optimization with O(ε1.5){O}(ε^{-1.5}) complexity.

problem Nonconvex-strongly-convex bilevel optimization problem.
method FdeHBO optimizer with finite-difference Hessian/Jacobian-vector approximation and momentum.
result FdeHBO achieves O(ε1.5){O}(ε^{-1.5}) iterations for εε-accurate stationary point.

Recent work (Pennington et al, 2017) suggests that controlling the entire distribution of Jacobian singular values is an important design consideration in deep learning. Motivated by this, we study the distribution of singular values of the Jacobian of the generator in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We find th…

2018-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper discusses fractional Sobolev immersions of flat domains into 3D space.

problem Developing C1C^1 regularity and isometric immersions of flat domains with fractional Sobolev regularity.
method Analysis of weak Codazzi-Mainardi equations, study of $W^{2, rac2s}$ planar deformations, and properties of the distributional Jacobian determinant.
result Generalization of isometric immersions with local fractional Sobolev regularity.

We derive an analytic formula for the dual Jacobian matrix of a generalised hyperbolic tetrahedron. Two cases are considered: a mildly truncated and a prism truncated tetrahedron. The Jacobian for the latter arises as an analytic continuation of the former, that falls in line with a similar behaviour of the correspondi…

2014-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper reveals low-rank structure in neural network gradients, influenced by data and model parameters.

problem Investigating low-rank structure in gradients of neural networks under relaxed assumptions.
method Spiked data model, relaxation of isotropy assumptions, analysis of mean-field and neural-tangent-kernel scalings.
result Gradient of input weights is approximately low rank, dominated by two rank-one terms.

New algorithms estimate Jacobian matrices for large-scale machine learning.

problem Efficiently computing search directions for large nonlinear least squares.
method Exploit low-rank structure in Hessian to estimate Jacobian matrices.
result Two algorithms perform well compared to state-of-the-art methods.

The paper extends infinite-width analysis to neural network Jacobians, revealing convergence to Gaussian processes and linear ODEs.

problem Understanding the training dynamics of neural networks in the infinite-width limit.
method Extending infinite-width analysis to Jacobians, characterizing convergence to Gaussian processes and linear ODEs.
result The evolution of MLPs under robust training in the infinite-width limit is described by a linear ODE.

We extend the well-known result that any fW1,n(Ω,Rn)f \in W^{1,n}(Ω,\mathbb{R}^n), ΩRnΩ\subset \mathbb{R}^n with strictly positive Jacobian is actually continuous: it is also true for fractional Sobolev spaces Ws,ns(Ω)W^{s,\frac{n}{s}}(Ω) for any snn+1s \geq \frac{n}{n+1}, where the sign condition on the Jacobian is understood in a distr…

2019-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

New method reduces deep learning training costs by approximating vector-jacobian products.

problem Efficiently training deep neural networks with reduced computational and memory costs.
method Randomized, unbiased approximations of vector-jacobian products during backpropagation.
result Validated potential for reducing deep learning training costs through unbiased estimates.

Normalizing flows optimize Jacobian determinant for unique likelihood objective.

problem Optimizing normalizing flows for unique likelihood.
method Showed Jacobian determinant is unique for given distributions, leading to a unique global optimum. Used eigenvalues of auto-correlation matrix for explicit likelihood expression.
result Explicit expression of likelihood for flows, independent of neural network parameterization, with theoretical optimal value.

The Jacobian of Douady-Earle extension equals 1 only for isometries.

problem Investigating the Jacobian of Douady-Earle extension maps.
method Analyzing the Jacobian of the Douady-Earle extension map and constructing sequences of hyperbolic surfaces.
result The Jacobian of the Douady-Earle extension map is 1 only when the map is an isometry, and it can grow arbitrarily large for certain sequences of surfaces.

To a compact Riemann surface of genus g can be assigned a principally polarized abelian variety (PPAV) of dimension g, the Jacobian of the Riemann surface. The Schottky problem is to discern the Jacobians among the PPAVs. Buser and Sarnak showed, that the square of the first successive minimum, the squared norm of the …

2010-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that the Goldman flows preserve the holomorphic structure on the moduli space of homomorphisms of the fundamental group of a Riemann surface into U(1), in other words the Jacobian.

2008-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Design of reliable systems must guarantee stability against input perturbations. In machine learning, such guarantee entails preventing overfitting and ensuring robustness of models against corruption of input data. In order to maximize stability, we analyze and develop a computationally efficient implementation of Jac…

2019-08-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Geometrically represents path integral reduction Jacobian for interacting systems.

problem Quantizing a model mechanical system with dependent coordinates.
method Geometric representation using scalar curvature and Christoffel symbols in a nonholonomic basis.
result Found a geometric representation for the path integral reduction Jacobian.

This work relaxes energy constraints in self-attention layers for a more general analysis.

problem Understanding inherent biases and dynamics in self-attention layers without energy functions.
method Dynamical systems analysis and Jacobian matrix examination.
result Normalized dynamics are close to a critical state, indicating high inference performance.

Develops methods for causal inference in longitudinal data.

problem Estimating Individual Treatment Effects (ITEs) in high-dimensional, time-varying data.
method Causal Dynamic Variational Autoencoder (CDVAE) and long-term counterfactual regression framework.
result CDVAE outperforms baselines and improves state-of-the-art models, approaching oracle performance.

JacNet learns Jacobians to enforce structure on derivatives for invertibility and Lipschitz functions.

problem Enforcing structure on derivatives of neural network mappings.
method Proposes using a neural network to directly learn the Jacobian of the input-output function, allowing control over derivative structure.
result Demonstrates learning invertible approximations to simple and 1-Lipschitz functions.

The paper studies global invertibility of maps on Finsler manifolds.

problem Global invertibility of locally Lipschitz maps on Finsler manifolds.
method Introduces pseudo-Jacobian and studies its relations with local metric properties of the map.
result Conditions for a map to be globally invertible and covering.

A new method for faster bandwidth selection in Gaussian kernel ridge regression.

problem Efficiently selecting the bandwidth in Gaussian kernel ridge regression.
method Formulated an approximate Jacobian expression for bandwidth selection, proposing a closed-form heuristic.
result Our method is as accurate as cross-validation and marginal likelihood maximization but up to six orders of magnitude faster.

A new method speeds up training of deep models by avoiding Jacobian determinant computation.

problem Efficiently training deep neural networks with complex log-determinant terms.
method Relative gradients to compute Jacobian updates efficiently.
result Training neural networks with Jacobian log-determinant objectives becomes feasible.