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While deep learning is successful in a number of applications, it is not yet well understood theoretically. A satisfactory theoretical characterization of deep learning however, is beginning to emerge. It covers the following questions: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tomaso Poggio , Andrzej Banburski , Qianli Liao

We examine the extent to which Gaussian relay networks can be approximated by deterministic networks, and present two results, one negative and one positive. The gap between the capacities of a Gaussian relay network and a corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-10 M. Anand , P. R. Kumar

Gaussian Processes (GPs) provide a convenient framework for specifying function-space priors, making them a natural choice for modeling uncertainty. In contrast, Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) offer greater scalability and extendability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Marcin Sendera , Amin Sorkhei , Tomasz Kuśmierczyk

Algorithm unfolding or unrolling is the technique of constructing a deep neural network (DNN) from an iterative algorithm. Unrolled DNNs often provide better interpretability and superior empirical performance over standard DNNs in signal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-21 Carter Lyons , Raghu G. Raj , Margaret Cheney

We show that the output of a (residual) convolutional neural network (CNN) with an appropriate prior over the weights and biases is a Gaussian process (GP) in the limit of infinitely many convolutional filters, extending similar results for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-07 Adrià Garriga-Alonso , Carl Edward Rasmussen , Laurence Aitchison

Understanding how neural networks generalize on unseen data is crucial for designing more robust and reliable models. In this paper, we study the generalization gap of neural networks using methods from topological data analysis. For this…

We introduce a unified theoretical framework for the rigorous analysis and systematic construction of deep neural networks (DNNs). This framework addresses a gap in existing theory by explicitly modeling the structure of tensor operations…

We address the problem of improving the performance and in particular the sample complexity of deep neural networks by enforcing and guaranteeing invariances to symmetry transformations rather than learning them from data. Group-equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Matthias Rath , Alexandru Paul Condurache

A practical limitation of deep neural networks is their high degree of specialization to a single task and visual domain. Recently, inspired by the successes of transfer learning, several authors have proposed to learn instead universal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

We propose a novel Bayesian neural network architecture that can learn invariances from data alone by inferring a posterior distribution over different weight-sharing schemes. We show that our model outperforms other non-invariant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-04 Nikolaos Mourdoukoutas , Marco Federici , Georges Pantalos , Mark van der Wilk , Vincent Fortuin

The structure of large-scale social networks has predominantly been articulated using generative models, a form of average-case analysis. This chapter surveys recent proposals of more robust models of such networks. These models posit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Tim Roughgarden , C. Seshadhri

We rigorously analyse fully-trained neural networks of arbitrary depth in the Bayesian optimal setting in the so-called proportional scaling regime where the number of training samples and width of the input and all inner layers diverge…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Francesco Camilli , Daria Tieplova , Eleonora Bergamin , Jean Barbier

Classical neural networks with random initialization famously behave as Gaussian processes in the limit of many neurons, which allows one to completely characterize their training and generalization behavior. No such general understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Eric R. Anschuetz

The infinitely wide neural network has been proven a useful and manageable mathematical model that enables the understanding of many phenomena appearing in deep learning. One example is the convergence of random deep networks to Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-19 Thiziri Nait-Saada , Alireza Naderi , Jared Tanner

Gaussian process models are flexible, Bayesian non-parametric approaches to regression. Properties of multivariate Gaussians mean that they can be combined linearly in the manner of additive models and via a link function (like in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-19 Alan D. Saul , James Hensman , Aki Vehtari , Neil D. Lawrence

A fundamental question in deep learning concerns the role played by individual layers in a deep neural network (DNN) and the transferable properties of the data representations which they learn. To the extent that layers have clear roles,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Oded Ben-David , Zohar Ringel

Over the last years, deep learning methods have become an increasingly popular choice to solve tasks from the field of inverse problems. Many of these new data-driven methods have produced impressive results, although most only give point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Alexander Denker , Maximilian Schmidt , Johannes Leuschner , Peter Maass

A neural network with fixed topology can be regarded as a parametrization of functions, which decides on the correlations between functional variations when parameters are adapted. We propose an analysis, based on a differential geometry…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Toussaint

Modern deep learning models generalize remarkably well in-distribution, despite being overparametrized and trained with little to no explicit regularization. Instead, current theory credits implicit regularization imposed by the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jonathan Wenger , Beau Coker , Juraj Marusic , John P. Cunningham

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) achieve great success in non-Euclidean structure data processing recently. In existing studies, deeper layers are used in CCNs to extract deeper features of Euclidean structure data. However, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Junhua Ma , Jiajun Li , Xueming Li , Xu Li