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cs.RO2026

World Action Models: A Survey

Qiuhong Shen, Shihua Zhang, Yue Liao +5

World Action Models (WAMs) are embodied predictive-action models that make a forecast of the future available to action. Recent WAMs repurpose large video generation models, and a…

cs.LG2026

Muon Learns More Robust and Transferable Features than Adam

Tianyu Ruan, Fengzhuo Zhang, Shuche Wang +1

Muon has recently emerged as a state-of-the-art optimizer for pretraining Large Language Models (LLMs) and vision classifiers. Despite its efficiency advantage over Adam and SGD, t…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Neural Collapse: Task-Intrinsic Geometry Governs Neural Representations in Modular Arithmetic

Hu Tan, Kuo Gai, Shihua Zhang

While neural collapse (NC) predicts that a -class-balanced classifier should organize terminal representations as a -dimensional simplex equiangular tight frame (ETF), mo…

cs.LG2026

Deciphering Two Training Clocks in Grokking via Deep Linear Network Theory with Conditional ReLU Reduction

Hu Tan, Kuo Gai, Shihua Zhang

Grokking suggests that fitting the training data and learning a simple underlying rule may occur on different time scales. We formalize this phenomenon by separating the fast decay…

cs.AI2026

Deciphering Shortcut Learning from an Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective

Xiayang Li, Kuo Gai, Shihua Zhang

Shortcut learning causes deep learning models to rely on non-essential features within the data. However, its formation in deep neural network training still lacks theoretical unde…

cs.LG2025

Feature Dynamics as Implicit Data Augmentation: A Depth-Decomposed View on Deep Neural Network Generalization

Tianyu Ruan, Kuo Gai, Shihua Zhang

Why do deep networks generalize well? In contrast to classical generalization theory, we approach this fundamental question by examining not only inputs and outputs, but the evolut…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Towards understanding how attention mechanism works in deep learning

Tianyu Ruan, Shihua Zhang

Attention mechanism has been extensively integrated within mainstream neural network architectures, such as Transformers and graph attention networks. Yet, its underlying working p…

cs.LG2024

OTAD: An Optimal Transport-Induced Robust Model for Agnostic Adversarial Attack

Kuo Gai, Sicong Wang, Shihua Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations of the inputs, posing a significant challenge to their reliability and robustness. Empirical methods s…

stat.ML2024

Analytical Solution of a Three-layer Network with a Matrix Exponential Activation Function

Kuo Gai, Shihua Zhang

In practice, deeper networks tend to be more powerful than shallow ones, but this has not been understood theoretically. In this paper, we find the analytical solution of a three-l…

cs.LG2024

Progressive Feedforward Collapse of ResNet Training

Sicong Wang, Kuo Gai, Shihua Zhang

Neural collapse (NC) is a simple and symmetric phenomenon for deep neural networks (DNNs) at the terminal phase of training, where the last-layer features collapse to their class m…