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Fourier Features Let Networks Learn High Frequency Functions in Low Dimensional Domains

2020/06/18 by Matthew Tancik, Tancik, Matthew, Pratul P. Srinivasan +15 · 3 voices · 444 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Vision and Imaging #Model Reduction and Neural Networks #Neural Networks and Applications #cs.CV #cs.LG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.10739

Project page: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bmild/fourfeat/

arxiv created 2020/06/18 · openalex publication_date 2020/06/18 · arxiv updated 2020/06/19 · openalex created_date 2020/06/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We show that passing input points through a simple Fourier feature mapping enables a multilayer perceptron (MLP) to learn high-frequency functions in low-dimensional problem domains. These results shed light on recent advances in computer vision and graphics that achieve state-of-the-art results by using MLPs to represent complex 3D objects and scenes. Using tools from the neural tangent kernel (NTK) literature, we show that a standard MLP fails to learn high frequencies both in theory and in practice. To overcome this spectral bias, we use a Fourier feature mapping to transform the effective NTK into a stationary kernel with a tunable bandwidth. We suggest an approach for selecting problem-specific Fourier features that greatly improves the performance of MLPs for low-dimensional regression tasks relevant to the computer vision and graphics communities.

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