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most citedBatch Normalization Orthogonalizes Representations in Deep Random Networks

9 citations · 12 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.LG2026

SeqLoRA: Bilevel Orthogonal Adaptation for Continual Multi-Concept Generation

Javad Parsa, Enis Simsar, Amir Joudaki +2

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning enables fast personalization of text-to-image diffusion models to user-provided concepts (objects, people, or styles), but composing multiple such c…

cs.LG2025

Barriers for Learning in an Evolving World: Mathematical Understanding of Loss of Plasticity

Amir Joudaki, Giulia Lanzillotta, Mohammad Samragh Razlighi +5

Deep learning models excel in stationary data but struggle in non-stationary environments due to a phenomenon known as loss of plasticity (LoP), the degradation of their ability to…

cs.LG2024

Emergence of Globally Attracting Fixed Points in Deep Neural Networks With Nonlinear Activations

Amir Joudaki, Thomas Hofmann

Understanding how neural networks transform input data across layers is fundamental to unraveling their learning and generalization capabilities. Although prior work has used insig…

cs.LG2023

Learning Genomic Sequence Representations using Graph Neural Networks over De Bruijn Graphs

Kacper Kapuśniak, Manuel Burger, Gunnar Rätsch +1

The rapid expansion of genomic sequence data calls for new methods to achieve robust sequence representations. Existing techniques often neglect intricate structural details, empha…

cs.LG2023

Towards Training Without Depth Limits: Batch Normalization Without Gradient Explosion

Alexandru Meterez, Amir Joudaki, Francesco Orabona +3

Normalization layers are one of the key building blocks for deep neural networks. Several theoretical studies have shown that batch normalization improves the signal propagation, b…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

On the impact of activation and normalization in obtaining isometric embeddings at initialization

Amir Joudaki, Hadi Daneshmand, Francis Bach

In this paper, we explore the structure of the penultimate Gram matrix in deep neural networks, which contains the pairwise inner products of outputs corresponding to a batch of in…

cs.LG2022

On Bridging the Gap between Mean Field and Finite Width in Deep Random Neural Networks with Batch Normalization

Amir Joudaki, Hadi Daneshmand, Francis Bach

Mean field theory is widely used in the theoretical studies of neural networks. In this paper, we analyze the role of depth in the concentration of mean-field predictions, specific…

stat.ML2021★ 9 cited

Batch Normalization Orthogonalizes Representations in Deep Random Networks

Hadi Daneshmand, Amir Joudaki, Francis Bach

This paper underlines a subtle property of batch-normalization (BN): Successive batch normalizations with random linear transformations make hidden representations increasingly ort…

cs.CG2013

Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction via Path-Based Isometric Mapping

Amir Najafi, Amir Joudaki, Emad Fatemizadeh

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods have demonstrated top-notch performance in many pattern recognition and image classification tasks. Despite their popularity, they suffer…