Appendix for " Residual Alignment: Uncovering the Mechanisms of Residual Networks " Anonymous Author(s) Affiliation Address email

We start by providing motivation for the unconstrained Jacobians problem introduced in the main text. We will continue our proof using contradiction. Figure 1: Fully-connected ResNet34 (Type 1 model) trained on MNIST.Figure 2: Fully-connected ResNet34 (Type 1 model) trained on FashionMNIST. Figure 10: Fully-connected ResNet34 (Type 1 model) trained on MNIST. Figure 24: Fully-connected ResNet34 (Type 1 model) trained on MNIST.