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

Neural Information Processing Systems

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.



Missing-Data-Induced Phase Transitions in Spectral PLS for Multimodal Learning

Gjølbye, Anders, Kargaard, Ida, Kargaard, Emma, Hansen, Lars Kai

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Partial Least Squares (PLS) learns shared structure from paired data via the top singular vectors of the empirical cross-covariance (PLS-SVD), but multimodal datasets often have missing entries in both views. We study PLS-SVD under independent entry-wise missing-completely-at-random masking in a proportional high-dimensional spiked model. After appropriate normalization, the masked cross-covariance behaves like a spiked rectangular random matrix whose effective signal strength is attenuated by $\sqrtρ$, where $ρ$ is the joint entry retention probability. As a result, PLS-SVD exhibits a sharp BBP-type phase transition: below a critical signal-to-noise threshold the leading singular vectors are asymptotically uninformative, while above it they achieve nontrivial alignment with the latent shared directions, with closed-form asymptotic overlap formulas. Simulations and semi-synthetic multimodal experiments corroborate the predicted phase diagram and recovery curves across aspect ratios, signal strengths, and missingness levels.




State Aggregation Learning from Markov Transition Data

Neural Information Processing Systems

State aggregation is a popular model reduction method rooted in optimal control. It reduces the complexity of engineering systems by mapping the system's states into a small number of meta-states. The choice of aggregation map often depends on the data analysts' knowledge and is largely ad hoc. In this paper, we propose a tractable algorithm that estimates the probabilistic aggregation map from the system's trajectory. We adopt a soft-aggregation model, where each meta-state has a signature raw state, called an anchor state.


High-Dimensional Partial Least Squares: Spectral Analysis and Fundamental Limitations

Léger, Victor, Chatelain, Florent

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Partial Least Squares (PLS) is a widely used method for data integration, designed to extract latent components shared across paired high-dimensional datasets. Despite decades of practical success, a precise theoretical understanding of its behavior in high-dimensional regimes remains limited. In this paper, we study a data integration model in which two high-dimensional data matrices share a low-rank common latent structure while also containing individual-specific components. We analyze the singular vectors of the associated cross-covariance matrix using tools from random matrix theory and derive asymptotic characterizations of the alignment between estimated and true latent directions. These results provide a quantitative explanation of the reconstruction performance of the PLS variant based on Singular Value Decomposition (PLS-SVD) and identify regimes where the method exhibits counter-intuitive or limiting behavior. Building on this analysis, we compare PLS-SVD with principal component analysis applied separately to each dataset and show its asymptotic superiority in detecting the common latent subspace. Overall, our results offer a comprehensive theoretical understanding of high-dimensional PLS-SVD, clarifying both its advantages and fundamental limitations.


KQ-SVD: Compressing the KV Cache with Provable Guarantees on Attention Fidelity

Lesens, Damien, Rakhshan, Beheshteh T., Rabusseau, Guillaume

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The Key-Value (KV) cache is central to the efficiency of transformer-based large language models (LLMs), storing previously computed vectors to accelerate inference. Yet, as sequence length and batch size grow, the cache becomes a major memory bottleneck. Prior compression methods typically apply low-rank decomposition to keys alone or attempt to jointly embed queries and keys, but both approaches neglect that attention fundamentally depends on their inner products. In this work, we prove that such strategies are suboptimal for approximating the attention matrix. We introduce KQ-SVD, a simple and computationally efficient method that directly performs an optimal low-rank decomposition of the attention matrix via a closed-form solution. By targeting the true source of redundancy, KQ-SVD preserves attention outputs with higher fidelity under compression. Extensive evaluations on LLaMA and Mistral models demonstrate that our approach consistently delivers superior projection quality.