Javier Maass Martínez

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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Deep learning architectures and training · 54% Learning theory · 23% Representation and self-supervised learning · 23%

Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
data augmentation
0.812024
Symmetries in Overparametrized Neural Networks: A Mean Field View · NeurIPS 2024
Machine learning › Learning theory › statistical learning theory › statistical physics of learning
mean-field analysis
0.812024
Symmetries in Overparametrized Neural Networks: A Mean Field View · NeurIPS 2024
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
overparameterized neural network
0.812024
Symmetries in Overparametrized Neural Networks: A Mean Field View · NeurIPS 2024
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning
symmetry and equivariance
0.812024
Symmetries in Overparametrized Neural Networks: A Mean Field View · NeurIPS 2024
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › training optimization
stochastic gradient descent dynamics
0.212024
Symmetries in Overparametrized Neural Networks: A Mean Field View · NeurIPS 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

wasserstein gradient flow · 0.8mean-field limit · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 A Hotelling-Downs game for strategic candidacy with binary issues
Javier Maass Martínez, Vincent Mousseau, Anaëlle Wilczynski
Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst.1
2024 Symmetries in Overparametrized Neural Networks: A Mean Field View
abstract
We develop a Mean-Field (MF) view of the learning dynamics of overparametrized Artificial Neural Networks (NN) under distributional symmetries of the data w.r.t. the action of a general compact group $G$. We consider for this a class of generalized shallow NNs given by an ensemble of $N$ multi-layer units, jointly trained using stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and possibly symmetry-leveraging (SL) techniques, such as Data Augmentation (DA), Feature Averaging (FA) or Equivariant Architectures (EA). We introduce the notions of weakly and strongly invariant laws (WI and SI) on the parameter space of each single unit, corresponding, respectively, to $G$-invariant distributions, and to distributions supported on parameters fixed by the group action (which encode EA). This allows us to define symmetric models compatible with taking $N\to\infty$ and give an interpretation of the asymptotic dynamics of DA, FA and EA in terms of Wasserstein Gradient Flows describing their MF limits. When activations respect the group action, we show that, for symmetric data, DA, FA and freely-trained models obey the exact same MF dynamic, which stays in the space of WI parameter laws and attains therein the population risk's minimizer. We also provide a counterexample to the general attainability of such an optimum over SI laws. Despite this, and quite remarkably, we show that the space of SI laws is also preserved by these MF distributional dynamics even when freely trained. This sharply contrasts the finite-$N$ setting, in which EAs are generally not preserved by unconstrained SGD. We illustrate the validity of our findings as $N$ gets larger, in a teacher-student experimental setting, training a student NN to learn from a WI, SI or arbitrary teacher model through various SL schemes. We lastly deduce a data-driven heuristic to discover the largest subspace of parameters supporting SI distributions for a problem, that could be used for designing EA with minimal generalization error.
Javier Maass Martínez, Joaquín Fontbona
NeurIPS1