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Peter Súkeník

6 accepted papers

2025

Neural Collapse is Globally Optimal in Deep Regularized ResNets and Transformers

NeurIPS 2025poster

The empirical emergence of neural collapse---a surprising symmetry in the feature representations of the training data in the penultimate layer of deep neural networks---has spurred a line of theoretical research aimed at its understanding. However, existing work focuses on data-agnostic models or,…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Wide Neural Networks Trained with Weight Decay Provably Exhibit Neural Collapse

ICLR 2025oral

Deep neural networks (DNNs) at convergence consistently represent the training data in the last layer via a geometric structure referred to as neural collapse. This empirical evidence has spurred a line of theoretical research aimed at proving the emergence of neural collapse, mostly focusing on the…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Average gradient outer product as a mechanism for deep neural collapse

NeurIPS 2024poster

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 measured in a variety of settings, its emergence is typically explained via data-agnostic approaches, such as the uncon…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2024

Neural collapse vs. low-rank bias: Is deep neural collapse really optimal?

NeurIPS 2024poster

Deep neural networks (DNNs) exhibit a surprising structure in their final layer known as neural collapse (NC), and a growing body of works is currently investigated the propagation of neural collapse to earlier layers of DNNs -- a phenomenon called deep neural collapse (DNC). However, existing theor…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

Deep Neural Collapse Is Provably Optimal for the Deep Unconstrained Features Model

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Neural collapse (NC) refers to the surprising structure of the last layer of deep neural networks in the terminal phase of gradient descent training. Recently, an increasing amount of experimental evidence has pointed to the propagation of NC to earlier layers of neural networks. However, while the…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2022

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fully-Connected Layers for Low-Data Regimes

NeurIPS 2022accept

Convolutional neural networks were the standard for solving many computer vision tasks until recently, when Transformers of MLP-based architectures have started to show competitive performance. These architectures typically have a vast number of weights and need to be trained on massive datasets; he…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar