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most citedMechanism of feature learning in convolutional neural networks

3 citations · 7 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

The Weight Gram Matrix Captures Sequential Feature Linearization in Deep Networks

Taehun Cha, Daniel Beaglehole, Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan +1

Understanding how deep neural networks learn representations remains a central challenge in machine learning theory. In this work, we propose a feature-centric framework for analyz…

cs.CL2026

Contextual Linear Activation Steering of Language Models

Brandon Hsu, Daniel Beaglehole, Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan +1

Linear activation steering is a powerful approach for eliciting the capabilities of large language models and specializing their behavior using limited labeled data. While effectiv…

stat.ML2026

DANCE: Doubly Adaptive Neighborhood Conformal Estimation

Brandon R. Feng, Brian J. Reich, Daniel Beaglehole +7

The recent developments of complex deep learning models have led to unprecedented ability to accurately predict across multiple data representation types. Conformal prediction for…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Steering Autoregressive Music Generation with Recursive Feature Machines

Daniel Zhao, Daniel Beaglehole, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +2

Controllable music generation remains a significant challenge, with existing methods often requiring model retraining or introducing audible artifacts. We introduce MusicRFM, a fra…

cs.LG2025

xRFM: Accurate, scalable, and interpretable feature learning models for tabular data

Daniel Beaglehole, David Holzmüller, Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan +1

Inference from tabular data, collections of continuous and categorical variables organized into matrices, is a foundation for modern technology and science. Yet, in contrast to the…

cs.CL2025

Toward universal steering and monitoring of AI models

Daniel Beaglehole, Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan, Enric Boix-Adserà +1

Modern AI models contain much of human knowledge, yet understanding of their internal representation of this knowledge remains elusive. Characterizing the structure and properties…

stat.ML2024

Emergence in non-neural models: grokking modular arithmetic via average gradient outer product

Neil Mallinar, Daniel Beaglehole, Libin Zhu +3

Neural networks trained to solve modular arithmetic tasks exhibit grokking, a phenomenon where the test accuracy starts improving long after the model achieves 100% training accura…

cs.GT2024

Fast, optimal, and dynamic electoral campaign budgeting by a generalized Colonel Blotto game

Thomas Valles, Daniel Beaglehole

The Colonel Blotto game is a deeply studied theoretical model for competitive allocation environments including elections, advertising, and ecology. However, the original formulati…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Average gradient outer product as a mechanism for deep neural collapse

Daniel Beaglehole, Peter Súkeník, Marco Mondelli +1

Deep Neural Collapse (DNC) refers to the surprisingly rigid structure of the data representations in the final layers of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Though the phenomenon has been…

stat.ML2024

Feature learning as alignment: a structural property of gradient descent in non-linear neural networks

Daniel Beaglehole, Ioannis Mitliagkas, Atish Agarwala

Understanding the mechanisms through which neural networks extract statistics from input-label pairs through feature learning is one of the most important unsolved problems in supe…

stat.ML2023★ 3 cited

Mechanism of feature learning in convolutional neural networks

Daniel Beaglehole, Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan, Parthe Pandit +1

Understanding the mechanism of how convolutional neural networks learn features from image data is a fundamental problem in machine learning and computer vision. In this work, we i…

cs.LG2022

Mechanism of feature learning in deep fully connected networks and kernel machines that recursively learn features

Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan, Daniel Beaglehole, Parthe Pandit +1

In recent years neural networks have achieved impressive results on many technological and scientific tasks. Yet, the mechanism through which these models automatically select feat…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

On the Inconsistency of Kernel Ridgeless Regression in Fixed Dimensions

Daniel Beaglehole, Mikhail Belkin, Parthe Pandit

``Benign overfitting'', the ability of certain algorithms to interpolate noisy training data and yet perform well out-of-sample, has been a topic of considerable recent interest. W…

cs.GT2022

Sampling Equilibria: Fast No-Regret Learning in Structured Games

Daniel Beaglehole, Max Hopkins, Daniel Kane +2

Learning and equilibrium computation in games are fundamental problems across computer science and economics, with applications ranging from politics to machine learning. Much of t…

cs.DS2021★ 1 cited

Learning to Hash Robustly, Guaranteed

Alexandr Andoni, Daniel Beaglehole

The indexing algorithms for the high-dimensional nearest neighbor search (NNS) with the best worst-case guarantees are based on the randomized Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), and…