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Uniform-in-time concentration in two-layer neural networks via transportation inequalities

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2026-03-03 v1 Probability

Abstract

We quantify, uniformly over time and with high probability, the discrepancy between the predictions of a two-layer neural network trained by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and their mean-field limit, for quadratic loss and ridge regularization. As a key ingredient, we establish T p transportation inequalities (p \in {1, 2}) for the law of the SGD parameters, with explicit constants independent of the iteration index. We then prove uniform-in-time concentration of the empirical parameter measure around its mean-field limit in the Wasserstein distance W 1 , and we translate these bounds into prediction-error estimates against a fixed test function Φ\Phi. We also derive analogous concentration bounds in the sliced-Wasserstein distance SW 1 , leading to dimension-free rates.

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@article{arxiv.2603.01842,
  title  = {Uniform-in-time concentration in two-layer neural networks via transportation inequalities},
  author = {Arnaud Guillin and Boris Nectoux and Paul Stos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01842},
  year   = {2026}
}