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most citedRandom initialisations performing above chance and how to find them

3 citations · 6 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2025

Scaling can lead to compositional generalization

Florian Redhardt, Yassir Akram, Simon Schug

Can neural networks systematically capture discrete, compositional task structure despite their continuous, distributed nature? The impressive capabilities of large-scale neural ne…

cs.LG2024

Weight decay induces low-rank attention layers

Seijin Kobayashi, Yassir Akram, Johannes Von Oswald

The effect of regularizers such as weight decay when training deep neural networks is not well understood. We study the influence of weight decay as well as -regularization whe…

cs.LG2024

Learning Randomized Algorithms with Transformers

Johannes von Oswald, Seijin Kobayashi, Yassir Akram +1

Randomization is a powerful tool that endows algorithms with remarkable properties. For instance, randomized algorithms excel in adversarial settings, often surpassing the worst-ca…

cs.LG2024

When can transformers compositionally generalize in-context?

Seijin Kobayashi, Simon Schug, Yassir Akram +5

Many tasks can be composed from a few independent components. This gives rise to a combinatorial explosion of possible tasks, only some of which might be encountered during trainin…

cs.LG2024

Attention as a Hypernetwork

Simon Schug, Seijin Kobayashi, Yassir Akram +2

Transformers can under some circumstances generalize to novel problem instances whose constituent parts might have been encountered during training, but whose compositions have not…

cs.LG2023

Discovering modular solutions that generalize compositionally

Simon Schug, Seijin Kobayashi, Yassir Akram +6

Many complex tasks can be decomposed into simpler, independent parts. Discovering such underlying compositional structure has the potential to enable compositional generalization.…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Gated recurrent neural networks discover attention

Nicolas Zucchet, Seijin Kobayashi, Yassir Akram +4

Recent architectural developments have enabled recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to reach and even surpass the performance of Transformers on certain sequence modeling tasks. These…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Random initialisations performing above chance and how to find them

Frederik Benzing, Simon Schug, Robert Meier +5

Neural networks trained with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) starting from different random initialisations typically find functionally very similar solutions, raising the questi…