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  3. Mean-field limit has been successfully applied to neural networks, leading to many results in optimizing overparametrized networks. However, existing works often focus on two-layer networks and/or require large number of neurons. We give a new framework for extending the mean-field limit to multilayer network, and show that a polynomial-size three-layer network in our framework can learn the function constructed by Safran et al. (2019) – which is known to be not approximable by any two-layer networks 
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  4. This paper proposes a representational model for image pairs such as consecutive video frames that are related by local pixel displacements, in the hope that the model may shed light on motion perception in primary visual cortex (V1). The model couples the following two components: (1) the vector representations of local contents of images and (2) the matrix representations of local pixel displacements caused by the relative motions between the agent and the objects in the 3D scene. When the image frame undergoes changes due to local pixel displacements, the vectors are multiplied by the matrices that represent the local displacements. Thus the vector representation is equivariant as it varies according to the local displacements. Our experiments show that our model can learn Gabor-like filter pairs of quadrature phases. The profiles of the learned filters match those of simple cells in Macaque V1. Moreover, we demonstrate that the model can learn to infer local motions in either a supervised or unsupervised manner. With such a simple model, we achieve competitive results on optical flow estimation. 
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