Optimized Weight Initialization on the Stiefel Manifold for Deep ReLU Neural Networks

arXiv:2509.00362 · cs.LG · Submitted 2025-08-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-08-30

Updated: 2026-10-20

Comments: 18 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Stiefel manifold — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Gradient Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• ReLU Network — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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