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Harmonic Loss Trains Interpretable AI Models
David D. Baek, Ziming Liu, Riya Tyagi +1
In this paper, we introduce harmonic loss as an alternative supervisory signal for training neural networks and large language models (LLMs). Harmonic loss differs from standard cr…
Neural Thermodynamic Laws for Large Language Model Training
Ziming Liu, Yizhou Liu, Jeff Gore +1
Beyond neural scaling laws, little is known about the laws underlying large language models (LLMs). We introduce Neural Thermodynamic Laws (NTL) -- a new framework that offers fres…
GenEFT: Understanding Statics and Dynamics of Model Generalization via Effective Theory
David D. Baek, Ziming Liu, Max Tegmark
We present GenEFT: an effective theory framework for shedding light on the statics and dynamics of neural network generalization, and illustrate it with graph learning examples. We…
KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Ziming Liu, Yixuan Wang, Sachin Vaidya +5
Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have…
Physics of Skill Learning
Ziming Liu, Yizhou Liu, Eric J. Michaud +2
We aim to understand physics of skill learning, i.e., how skills are learned in neural networks during training. We start by observing the Domino effect, i.e., skills are learned s…