Optimizing over the set of orthogonal matrices is a central component in problems like sparse-PCA or tensor decomposition. Unfortunately, such optimization is hard since simple operations on orthogonal matrices easily break orthogonality, and correcting orthogonality usually costs a large amount of computation. Here we…
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We orthogonalize the NSS model to condition and diagnose its ill-conditioned parameters.
problem The ill-conditioning of the NSS model's design matrix.
method Exact orthogonal reparametrization via QR decomposition.
result Orthogonalization isolates the conditioning structure and maintains fit uncertainty.
Efficient Orthogonal Tensor Decomposition, with an Application to Latent Variable Model Learningstat.ML
Decomposing tensors into orthogonal factors is a well-known task in statistics, machine learning, and signal processing. We study orthogonal outer product decompositions where the factors in the summands in the decomposition are required to be orthogonal across summands, by relating this orthogonal decomposition to the…
A Clifford algebra model for M"obius geometry is presented. The notion of Ribaucour pairs of orthogonal systems in arbitrary dimensions is introduced, and the structure equations for adapted frames are derived. These equations are discretized and the geometry of the occuring discrete nets and sphere congruences is disc…
New differential geometry perspective on orthogonal RNNs.
problem Mitigating exploding and vanishing gradients in RNNs.
method Using tools from differential geometry, parameterizing vector fields via directional derivatives of scalar functions.
result Our approach achieves comparable or better results on benchmark tasks.
We propose orthogonality as a necessary condition for disentangling aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.
problem Jointly estimating aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty is problematic and non-trivial.
method We propose orthogonality as a necessary condition for disentanglement and construct UDE to measure orthogonality and consistency.
result Orthogonality and consistency are necessary and sufficient criteria for disentanglement.
Study removes bias from chest X-ray embeddings using orthogonalization.
problem Reduces bias in chest X-ray embeddings due to protected features.
method Orthogonalization technique to remove protected feature effects.
result Orthogonalization removes bias and makes predictions of protected attributes infeasible.
Novel prior for orthogonal functions improves functional component estimation.
problem Improving orthogonality in functional principal component analysis.
method Sequential adaptive priors for orthogonal functions using hierarchical conditionally normal distributions.
result Proposed prior leads to nearly orthogonal posterior estimates.
Orthogonal deep models defend against black-box attacks by ensuring internal representations are nearly orthogonal.
problem Vulnerability of deep learning models to black-box adversarial attacks.
method Introduce a gradient regularization scheme to encourage deep models' internal representations to be orthogonal to another model's.
result Orthogonal deep models significantly boost robustness against transferable black-box adversarial attacks.
Paper optimizes tensor deflation for non-orthogonal signals.
problem Recovering low-rank signals from noisy tensors with correlated components.
method Developed an asymptotic analysis and optimized deflation procedure using random tensor theory.
result Proposed an efficient tensor deflation algorithm that optimizes a parameter introduced in the deflation mechanism.
Random orthogonalization improves FL in massive MIMO systems without CSI.
problem Efficient model aggregation in FL with minimal channel estimation overhead.
method Combining FL with massive MIMO's channel hardening and favorable propagation, random orthogonalization reduces channel estimation overhead.
result Achieves model aggregation without CSI, significantly reducing channel estimation overhead.
Proposes FOAGP for efficient orthogonal effect decomposition of black-box computer experiments.
problem Challenges in sensitivity analysis of black-box computer experiments with complex, nonlinear functional outputs.
method Functional-output orthogonal additive Gaussian process (FOAGP) with conditional orthogonality constraint.
result Demonstrates effectiveness in orthogonal effect decomposition and variance decomposition through simulations and real-world application.
MuonEq improves training of matrix-valued parameters by rebalancing momentum before orthogonalization.
problem Training matrix-valued parameters with orthogonalized-update optimizers like Muon.
method MuonEq introduces three lightweight pre-orthogonalization equilibration schemes: two-sided row/column normalization (RC), row normalization (R), and column normalization (C).
result Row/column normalization acts as a zeroth-order surrogate for whitening and improves the geometry seen by orthogonalization.
AuON is a linear-time optimizer that improves upon Muon's performance without approximate orthogonal matrices.
problem High memory and computational costs of orthogonal momentum updates.
method AuON uses normalized nonlinear scaling and a 'emergency brake' to handle exploding attention logits.
result AuON achieves strong performance without approximate orthogonal matrices, preserving structural alignment and reconditioning.
Corrected whitening restores orthogonality in high-dimensional spherical Gaussian mixtures.
problem In high-dimensional data, standard whitening fails to preserve orthogonality of mixture means.
method Derived exact limits for whitened means dot products using random matrix theory, constructed a corrected whitening matrix.
result Corrected whitening allows for improved estimation of spherical Gaussian mixtures in the large-dimensional regime.
A method for interpreting SVMs using polynomial kernels, revealing model complexity.
problem Interpreting SVMs built with truncated orthogonal polynomial kernels.
method Orthogonal Representation Contribution Analysis (ORCA) with normalized Orthogonal Kernel Contribution (OKC) indices.
result The method reveals structural aspects of model complexity not captured by predictive accuracy.
Improves model predictability by mixing forecasts and orthogonalizing models.
problem Redundant models contaminate model space and degrade predictive performance.
method Principal Component Analysis for model orthogonalization in Bayesian forecast mixing.
result Better prediction accuracy and excellent uncertainty quantification.
Semi-parametric framework for nonlinear system identification
problem Nonlinear system identification
method Orthogonal Gaussian process regression
result Interpretable models from incomplete physics
Transformers learn to recall with non-orthogonal embeddings in realistic settings.
problem Understanding how transformers store and retrieve knowledge in practical scenarios.
method Analyzing a single-layer transformer with random embeddings trained on a token-retrieval task.
result Explicit formulas for the model's storage capacity reveal a multiplicative dependence on sample size, embedding dimension, and sequence length.
We construct an explicit topological model (similar to the topological Springer fibers appearing in work of Khovanov and Russell) for every two-row Springer fiber associated with the even orthogonal group and prove that the respective topological model is homeomorphic to its corresponding Springer fiber. This confirms …
The study extends Jacobi-orthogonality to indefinite scalar product spaces.
problem Generalizing Jacobi-orthogonality to indefinite scalar product spaces.
method Comparing principles, investigating tensor relations, proving properties.
result Every quasi-Clifford tensor is Jacobi-orthogonal; certain tensors are Jacobi-dual or Osserman.
Proposes a new method for analyzing multimodal neuroimaging data.
problem Combining interpretability and flexibility in multimodal data analysis.
method Orthogonalized kernel debiased machine learning approach.
result Established consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimated primary parameter.
New characterization of Osserman tensors using Jacobi-orthogonality.
problem Characterizing Osserman tensors.
method Introducing Jacobi-orthogonality as a new potential characterization.
result Jacobi-orthogonal tensors are Osserman, and all known Osserman tensors are Jacobi-orthogonal.
Study isotropy groups for complex orthogonal and skew-symmetric matrices.
problem Understanding isotropy subgroups of orthogonal similarity transformations.
method Analysis of group structure of nonsingular block matrices.
result Group structure of isotropy subgroups related to block Toeplitz matrices.
Pion optimizes LLMs by preserving weight matrix singular values.
problem Training large language models (LLMs) with standard optimizers leads to unstable weight matrices.
method Pion uses orthogonal transformations to update weight matrices, preserving their singular values.
result Pion offers a stable alternative to standard optimizers for LLM pretraining and finetuning.
New findings on Kähler manifolds restrict orthogonal coordinates existence.
problem Existence of orthogonal coordinates on Kähler manifolds.
method Algebraic and geometric techniques applied to Kähler manifolds.
result No nontrivial self-dual Kähler 4-manifolds or Ricci-flat Kähler 4-manifolds support orthogonal coordinates.
Constructs orthogonal coordinates in curved spaces.
problem Separating variables in curved spaces.
method Explicit construction of orthogonal coordinates and transformations.
result Explicit formulas for Killing tensors and Stäckel matrices.
OPT framework improves neural network generalization by learning an orthogonal transformation.
problem Improving neural network generalization.
method Orthogonal over-parameterized training (OPT) framework that minimizes hyperspherical energy.
result OPT framework provably minimizes hyperspherical energy and improves empirical generalization.
Unified framework for multi-view learning with orthogonal projections.
problem Learning individual orthogonal projections for multiple views.
method Successive approximations via eigenvectors, iterative Krylov subspace method.
result Consistently competitive and often better than existing methods.
The paper studies surfaces in a bounded domain with orthogonal boundaries and proves curvature estimates.
problem Estimating the area of surfaces with orthogonal boundaries in a bounded domain.
method Weak formulation of orthogonality for curvature varifolds, classification of vanishing curvature varifolds.
result Existence of an orthogonal 2-varifold that minimizes curvature in the integer rectifiable class.
Muon optimizer simplifies matrix optimization with spectral orthogonalization.
problem Matrix optimization challenges, especially with large condition numbers.
method Simplified Muon optimizer using spectral orthogonalization of gradients.
result Simplified Muon converges linearly with independent scalar sequences, outperforming gradient descent and Adam.
Orthogonal random features approximate a Bessel kernel, offering sharper bounds than random Fourier features.
problem Approximating Gaussian kernel efficiently for large datasets.
method Use of Haar orthogonal matrices to construct orthogonal random features and analyze their bias and variance.
result Orthogonal random features approximate a Bessel kernel, not the Gaussian kernel, with sharper bounds.
Principal component analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised method for learning low-dimensional features with orthogonal projections. Multilinear PCA methods extend PCA to deal with multidimensional data (tensors) directly via tensor-to-tensor projection or tensor-to-vector projection (TVP). However, under the TVP setting, i…
We consider the problem of sampling from posterior distributions for Bayesian models where some parameters are restricted to be orthogonal matrices. Such matrices are sometimes used in neural networks models for reasons of regularization and stabilization of training procedures, and also can parameterize matrices of bo…
Study optimizes estimation of orthogonal and rotation matrices from noisy data.
problem Estimating orthogonal and rotation matrices from noisy data.
method Iterative polar decomposition algorithm initialized by spectral methods.
result Algorithm achieves optimal error rate of $(1+o(1)) rac{σ^2 d(d-1)}{2np}$.
Method constructs orthogonal curvilinear coordinates in constant curvature spaces.
problem Creating orthogonal coordinates in spaces of constant curvature.
method Modification of Krichever's method for Euclidean space, applied to constant curvature spaces.
result Examples of orthogonal coordinate systems on the sphere and hyperbolic plane constructed.
We study the Chern-Simons partition function of orthogonal quantum group invariants, and propose a new orthogonal Labastida-Mariño-Ooguri-Vafa conjecture as well as degree conjecture for free energy associated to the orthogonal Chern-Simons partition function. We prove the degree conjecture and some interesting cases o…
Study shows RFRR's effectiveness with nearly orthogonal data in overparameterized settings.
problem Understanding the effectiveness of random feature regression with nearly orthogonal data.
method Investigates RFRR with nearly orthogonal deterministic unit-length input data vectors in the overparameterized regime.
result Shows high-probability non-asymptotic concentration results for RFRR's training, cross-validation, and generalization errors.
Proposes a novel method for detecting novelty in multi-modal data.
problem Challenges in detecting novelty in high-dimensional, multi-modal data.
method Orthogonalized latent space for disentangling features and defining novelty score.
result Proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in novelty detection.
DONUT improves treatment effect estimation by enforcing orthogonality constraints.
problem Estimating treatment effects from observational data is challenging due to unobserved outcomes.
method DONUT uses a regularization framework that formalizes unconfoundedness as orthogonality, leading to deep orthogonal networks.
result DONUT outperforms state-of-the-art methods in estimating average treatment effects.
The non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) model with an additional orthogonality constraint on one of the factor matrices, called the orthogonal NMF (ONMF), has been found a promising clustering model and can outperform the classical K-means. However, solving the ONMF model is a challenging optimization problem becau…
New convergence guarantees for learning with unknown nuisance parameters.
problem Learning problems with unknown nuisance parameters.
method Stochastic gradient optimization with Neyman orthogonality and approximately orthogonalized updates.
result Stochastic gradient algorithms can converge under conditions of nuisance parameters.
Orthogonal initialization does not speed up training in ultra-wide neural networks.
problem Exploring the effect of orthogonal initialization on training speed in deep neural networks.
method Study of neural tangent kernel dynamics in FCNs and CNNs with orthogonal initialization.
result The NTK of orthogonally-initialized networks remains constant during training, suggesting no speedup in the NTK regime.
A new algorithm POGO optimizes thousands of orthogonal matrices efficiently.
problem Optimizing thousands of orthogonal constraints at scale is computationally expensive.
method Revisits Landing algorithm, uses modern adaptive optimizers, reduces hyperparameters.
result POGO optimizes thousands of orthogonal matrices in minutes, outperforming alternatives.
Batch normalization makes deep neural networks' representations increasingly orthogonal.
problem Orthogonality of deep neural network representations.
method Random linear transformations in successive batch-normalizations.
result Orthogonality of representations improves SGD performance.
The paper finds at least N orthogonal Finsler geodesic chords in a disk-like manifold.
problem Existence and multiplicity of orthogonal Finsler geodesic chords in a disk-like manifold.
method Study of Finsler geodesic chords under reversibility assumption.
result At least N orthogonal Finsler geodesic chords found in a disk-like manifold.
Optimal spectral estimators and AMP combine for efficient weak recovery in orthogonally invariant GLMs.
problem Parameter estimation from generalized linear models with complex correlation structures.
method Spectral initialization and approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm.
result Established rigorous performance guarantees for spectral initialization and AMP.
We develop matrix models for Grassmann, flag, and Stiefel manifolds.
problem Creating efficient models for Grassmann, flag, and Stiefel manifolds.
method Orthogonally-equivariant matrix submanifold models derived for each manifold.
result Exhaustive list of orthogonally-equivariant submanifold models for the lowest dimensions.