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Sibylle Marcotte

5 accepted papers

2025

Transformative or Conservative? Conservation laws for ResNets and Transformers

ICML 2025oral

While conservation laws in gradient flow training dynamics are well understood for (mostly shallow) ReLU and linear networks, their study remains largely unexplored for more practical architectures. For this, we first show that basic building blocks such as ReLU (or linear) shallow networks, with or…

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2024

Keep the Momentum: Conservation Laws beyond Euclidean Gradient Flows

ICML 2024poster

Conservation laws are well-established in the context of Euclidean gradient flow dynamics, notably for linear or ReLU neural network training. Yet, their existence and principles for non-Euclidean geometries and momentum-based dynamics remain largely unknown. In this paper, we characterize "all" con…

2023

Abide by the law and follow the flow: conservation laws for gradient flows

NeurIPS 2023oral

Understanding the geometric properties of gradient descent dynamics is a key ingredient in deciphering the recent success of very large machine learning models. A striking observation is that trained over-parameterized models retain some properties of the optimization initialization. This "implicit…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2022

Fast Multiscale Diffusion On Graphs

ICASSP 2022accepted

Diffusing a graph signal at multiple scales requires to compute the action of the exponential of as many versions of the Laplacian matrix. Considering the truncated Chebyshev polynomial approximation of the exponential, we derive a tightened bound on the approximation error, allowing thus for a bett…

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