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On Explicit Super-Expressive Approximation for Neural Networks

Machine Learning 2026-07-07 v1

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the fixed-architecture neural network approximation with explicit parameter bounds and elementary activations. While prior work demonstrated super-expressive approximation using fixed-size networks, they lack quantitative and non-asymptotic characterizations of parameter magnitude with respect to the approximation error. We resolve this issue by introducing the Chinese Remainder Theorem as a constructive encoding mechanism. For Lipschitz continuous functions on [0,1]D[0,1]^D, we construct a width-max{D,4}\max\{D,4\}, depth-55 network with explicit parameter-error trade-offs. For H\"older-smooth functions in CAr,γ([0,1]D)C^{r,\gamma}_A\left([0,1]^D\right), our fixed network of width max{2D, D+5N+1}\max\{2D,\ D+5N+1\} and depth r+9r + 9 achieves the parameter magnitude P\mathcal{P} bounded by log2P=O(ε2D/(r+γ)log(1/ε))\log_2 \mathcal{P}=\mathcal{O}\bigl(\varepsilon^{-2D/(r+\gamma)}\log(1/\varepsilon)\bigr). This is the dual result compared to those in the parameter-bounded and architecture-unbounded paradigm.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.06781,
  title  = {On Explicit Super-Expressive Approximation for Neural Networks},
  author = {Feng-Lei Fan and Ze-Yu Li and Chen-Yu Wang and Jian-Jun Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.06781},
  year   = {2026}
}

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44 pages, 4 figures