# Improved Implicit Neural Representation with Fourier Reparameterized Training

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07402 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.07402/

## Key facts

- Cited by 36 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 37 of its 49 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 15 Jan 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 37)

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- [On the Inductive Bias of Neural Tangent Kernels](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.12173/) (2019)
- [The Convergence Rate of Neural Networks for Learned Functions of Different Frequencies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.00425/) (2019)
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- [Deep Implicit Moving Least-Squares Functions for 3D Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.12266/) (2021)
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## Abstract (arXiv)

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) as a mighty representation paradigm has achieved success in various computer vision tasks recently. Due to the low-frequency bias issue of vanilla multi-layer perceptron (MLP), existing methods have investigated advanced techniques, such as positional encoding and periodic activation function, to improve the accuracy of INR. In this paper, we connect the network training bias with the reparameterization technique and theoretically prove that weight reparameterization could provide us a chance to alleviate the spectral bias of MLP. Based on our theoretical analysis, we propose a Fourier reparameterization method which learns coefficient matrix of fixed Fourier bases to compose the weights of MLP. We evaluate the proposed Fourier reparameterization method on different INR tasks with various MLP architectures, including vanilla MLP, MLP with positional encoding and MLP with advanced activation function, etc. The superiority approximation results on different MLP architectures clearly validate the advantage of our proposed method. Armed with our Fourier reparameterization method, better INR with more textures and less artifacts can be learned from the training data.
