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Geonho Hwang

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preprint2026arXiv

Floating-Point Networks with Automatic Differentiation Can Represent Almost All Floating-Point Functions and Their Gradients

Theoretical studies show that for any differentiable function on a compact domain, there exists a neural network that approximates both the function values and gradients. However, such a result cannot be used in practice since it assumes real parameters and exact internal operations. In contrast, real implementations only use a finite subset of reals and machine operations with round-off errors. In this work, we investigate whether a similar result holds for neural networks under floating-point arithmetic, when the gradient with respect to the input is computed by the automatic differentiation algorithm DADD^\mathtt{AD}. We first show that given a floating-point function φφ (e.g., a loss function), arbitrary function values and gradients can be represented by a floating-point network ff and DAD(φ∘f)D^\mathtt{AD}(φ\circ f), respectively. We further extend this result: given φ1,…,φnφ_1,\dots,φ_n, DAD(φi∘f)D^\mathtt{AD}(φ_i\circ f) can simultaneously represent arbitrary gradients while ff represents the target values, under mild conditions. Our results hold for practical activation functions, e.g., ReLU\mathrm{ReLU}, ELU\mathrm{ELU}, GeLU\mathrm{GeLU}, Swish\mathrm{Swish}, Sigmoid\mathrm{Sigmoid}, and tanh\mathrm{tanh}.

preprint2022arXiv

Do Not Escape From the Manifold: Discovering the Local Coordinates on the Latent Space of GANs

The discovery of the disentanglement properties of the latent space in GANs motivated a lot of research to find the semantically meaningful directions on it. In this paper, we suggest that the disentanglement property is closely related to the geometry of the latent space. In this regard, we propose an unsupervised method for finding the semantic-factorizing directions on the intermediate latent space of GANs based on the local geometry. Intuitively, our proposed method, called Local Basis, finds the principal variation of the latent space in the neighborhood of the base latent variable. Experimental results show that the local principal variation corresponds to the semantic factorization and traversing along it provides strong robustness to image traversal. Moreover, we suggest an explanation for the limited success in finding the global traversal directions in the latent space, especially W-space of StyleGAN2. We show that W-space is warped globally by comparing the local geometry, discovered from Local Basis, through the metric on Grassmannian Manifold. The global warpage implies that the latent space is not well-aligned globally and therefore the global traversal directions are bound to show limited success on it.

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