Initialization
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The spectral neuron - an ML primitive for scalable and interpretable models [R]
Introducing the Spectral Neuron, a novel ML primitive poised to redefine scalable and interpretable model design. Stemming from a challenge to identify models that are simultaneously simple, scalable, and controllable, this research, detailed in the preprint "The Spectral Neuron," explores models of the form π(π) = πβ(πβ + πΊα΅’ π₯α΅’πα΅’). Initial explorations began as a blog series, now formalized with rigorous mathematical development, practical training recipes, and scaling experiments.
How much of the weight-space perception gap is actually symmetry? Evidence from ~1.8M fitted SIRENs [R]
Recent research investigates the weight-space perception gap in AI, specifically exploring how much of the degradation in performance arises from parameter symmetry when neural networks are fitted independently. Analyzing nearly 1.8 million SIREN networks across benchmark datasets, the study demonstrates that randomizing the symmetry group alone accounts for a striking 79.1% of the accuracy loss observed when comparing shared-initialization versus independent initialization. This establishes the sufficiency of symmetry in reproducing much of this performance gap.