Spectral asymptotics of neural network Jacobians: Convergency, universality, and phase transition
神经网络雅可比矩阵的谱渐近:收敛、普适性与相变
We study the spectral properties of the Jacobian matrix in artificial neural networks and establish both its limiting spectral distribution and the second-order fluctuations of its spectrum. Our analysis uncovers fundamental phenomena, including universality properties with respect to the weight distribution and a phase transition in spectral behavior driven by the choice of activation function. Leveraging tools from random matrix theory, we first analyze a class of…