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Emanuele Francazi

3 accepted papers

2026

When Bias Helps Learning: Bridging Initial Prejudice and Trainability

ICLR 2026poster

Understanding the statistical properties of deep neural networks (DNNs) at initialization is crucial for elucidating both their trainability and the intrinsic architectural biases they encode prior to data exposure. Mean-field (MF) analyses have demonstrated that the parameter distribution in random…

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2024

Initial Guessing Bias: How Untrained Networks Favor Some Classes

ICML 2024poster

Understanding and controlling biasing effects in neural networks is crucial for ensuring accurate and fair model performance. In the context of classification problems, we provide a theoretical analysis demonstrating that the structure of a deep neural network (DNN) can condition the model to assign…

2023

A Theoretical Analysis of the Learning Dynamics under Class Imbalance

ICML 2023poster

Data imbalance is a common problem in machine learning that can have a critical effect on the performance of a model. Various solutions exist but their impact on the convergence of the learning dynamics is not understood. Here, we elucidate the significant negative impact of data imbalance on learni…