Foundation Models Secretly Understand Neural Network Weights: Enhancing Hypernetwork Architectures with Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00838v1
• Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:20:02 GMT
• Title: Foundation Models Secretly Understand Neural Network Weights: Enhancing Hypernetwork Architectures with Foundation Models
• Authors: Jeffrey Gu, Serena Yeung-Levy,
• Abstract summary: We show how foundation models can improve hypernetworks with Transformer-based architectures.<n>We provide an empirical analysis of the benefits of foundation models for hypernetworks through the lens of the generalizable INR task.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large pre-trained models, or foundation models, have shown impressive performance when adapted to a variety of downstream tasks, often out-performing specialized models. Hypernetworks, neural networks that generate some or all of the parameters of another neural network, have become an increasingly important technique for conditioning and generalizing implicit neural representations (INRs), which represent signals or objects such as audio or 3D shapes using a neural network. However, despite the potential benefits of incorporating foundation models in hypernetwork methods, this research direction has not been investigated, likely due to the dissimilarity of the weight generation task with other visual tasks. To address this gap, we (1) show how foundation models can improve hypernetworks with Transformer-based architectures, (2) provide an empirical analysis of the benefits of foundation models for hypernetworks through the lens of the generalizable INR task, showing that leveraging foundation models improves performance, generalizability, and data efficiency across a variety of algorithms and modalities. We also provide further analysis in examining the design space of foundation model-based hypernetworks, including examining the choice of foundation models, algorithms, and the effect of scaling foundation models.

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