Eigenvalue distribution of the Neural Tangent Kernel in the quadratic scaling
Probability
2025-08-28 v1 Machine Learning
Abstract
We compute the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution of the neural tangent kernel of a two-layer neural network under a specific scaling of dimension. Namely, if is an i.i.d random matrix, is an i.i.d matrix and is a diagonal matrix with i.i.d bounded entries, we consider the matrix where is a pseudo-Lipschitz function applied entrywise and under the scaling and . We describe the asymptotic distribution as the free multiplicative convolution of the Marchenko--Pastur distribution with a deterministic distribution depending on and .
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@article{arxiv.2508.20036,
title = {Eigenvalue distribution of the Neural Tangent Kernel in the quadratic scaling},
author = {Lucas Benigni and Elliot Paquette},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.20036},
year = {2025}
}
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42 pages, 8 figures