A geometric analysis of neural collapse with unconstrained features

Z Zhu, T Ding, J Zhou, X Li, C You… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We provide the first global optimization landscape analysis of Neural Collapse--an intriguing
empirical phenomenon that arises in the last-layer classifiers and features of neural …

Limitations of neural collapse for understanding generalization in deep learning

L Hui, M Belkin, P Nakkiran - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08384, 2022 - arxiv.org
The recent work of Papyan, Han, & Donoho (2020) presented an intriguing" Neural
Collapse" phenomenon, showing a structural property of interpolating classifiers in the late …

On the emergence of simplex symmetry in the final and penultimate layers of neural network classifiers

E Weinan, S Wojtowytsch - Mathematical and Scientific …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
A recent numerical study observed that neural network classifiers enjoy a large degree of
symmetry in the penultimate layer. Namely, if $ h (x)= Af (x)+ b $ where $ A $ is a linear map …

Neural collapse for unconstrained feature model under cross-entropy loss with imbalanced data

W Hong, S Ling - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.09725, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent years have witnessed the huge success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various
tasks of computer vision and text processing. Interestingly, these DNNs with massive …

On the emergence of simplex symmetry in the final and penultimate layers of neural network classifiers

S Wojtowytsch - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05420, 2020 - arxiv.org
A recent numerical study observed that neural network classifiers enjoy a large degree of
symmetry in the penultimate layer. Namely, if $ h (x)= Af (x)+ b $ where $ A $ is a linear map …

Neural Collapse for Unconstrained Feature Model under Cross-entropy Loss with Imbalanced Data

W Hong, S Ling - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2024 - jmlr.org
Neural Collapse (NC) is a fascinating phenomenon that arises during the terminal phase of
training (TPT) of deep neural networks (DNNs). Specifically, for balanced training datasets …

Validation is not verification: precise terminology and scientific methods in bioprocess modeling

J Smiatek, A Jung, E Bluhmki - Trends in Biotechnology, 2021 - cell.com
Advanced statistical approaches and new modeling procedures for biopharmaceutical
development and manufacturing have received increasing attention. With this forum article …

Robustness and complexity

SA Frank - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
When a system robustly corrects component-level errors, the direct pressure on component
performance declines. Components become less reliable, maintain more genetic variability …

Optimization of transcription factor genetic circuits

SA Frank - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Transcription factors (TFs) are proteins that bind to DNA and control the
expression of genes, including other TF genes. A common challenge in cellular biology is to …

On Interpretability of CNNs for Multimodal Medical Image Segmentation

S Lazendić, J Janssens, S Huang… - 2022 30th European …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite their huge potential, deep learning-based models are still not trustful enough to
warrant their adoption in clinical practice. The research on the interpretability and …