Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Implicit Neural Representations: Making SIREN a WINNER

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Main Authors: Chandravamsi, Hemanth, Shenoy, Dhanush V., Frankel, Steven H.
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author Chandravamsi, Hemanth
Shenoy, Dhanush V.
Frankel, Steven H.
author_facet Chandravamsi, Hemanth
Shenoy, Dhanush V.
Frankel, Steven H.
contents We identify and address a fundamental limitation of sinusoidal representation networks (SIRENs), a class of implicit neural representations. SIRENs Sitzmann et al. (2020), when not initialized appropriately, can struggle at fitting signals that fall outside their frequency support. In extreme cases, when the network's frequency support misaligns with the target spectrum, a 'spectral bottleneck' phenomenon is observed, where the model yields to a near-zero output and fails to recover even the frequency components that are within its representational capacity. To overcome this, we propose WINNER - Weight Initialization with Noise for Neural Representations. WINNER perturbs uniformly initialized weights of base SIREN with Gaussian noise - whose noise scales are adaptively determined by the spectral centroid of the target signal. Similar to random Fourier embeddings, this mitigates 'spectral bias' but without introducing additional trainable parameters. Our method achieves state-of-the-art audio fitting and significant gains in image and 3D shape fitting tasks over base SIREN. Beyond signal fitting, WINNER suggests new avenues in adaptive, target-aware initialization strategies for optimizing deep neural network training. For code and data visit cfdlabtechnion.github.io/siren_square/.
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spellingShingle Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Implicit Neural Representations: Making SIREN a WINNER
Chandravamsi, Hemanth
Shenoy, Dhanush V.
Frankel, Steven H.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
We identify and address a fundamental limitation of sinusoidal representation networks (SIRENs), a class of implicit neural representations. SIRENs Sitzmann et al. (2020), when not initialized appropriately, can struggle at fitting signals that fall outside their frequency support. In extreme cases, when the network's frequency support misaligns with the target spectrum, a 'spectral bottleneck' phenomenon is observed, where the model yields to a near-zero output and fails to recover even the frequency components that are within its representational capacity. To overcome this, we propose WINNER - Weight Initialization with Noise for Neural Representations. WINNER perturbs uniformly initialized weights of base SIREN with Gaussian noise - whose noise scales are adaptively determined by the spectral centroid of the target signal. Similar to random Fourier embeddings, this mitigates 'spectral bias' but without introducing additional trainable parameters. Our method achieves state-of-the-art audio fitting and significant gains in image and 3D shape fitting tasks over base SIREN. Beyond signal fitting, WINNER suggests new avenues in adaptive, target-aware initialization strategies for optimizing deep neural network training. For code and data visit cfdlabtechnion.github.io/siren_square/.
title Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Implicit Neural Representations: Making SIREN a WINNER
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12980