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This paper studies approximation by shallow ReLU$^s$ networks, $\sigma_s(t)=\max\{0,t\}^s$, together with their generalization behavior under $\ell_1$ path-norm control. For the $L^p$-type integral spaces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Weizhao Li , Fanghui Liu , Lei Shi

Given any domain $X\subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ and a probability measure $\rho$ on $X$, we study the problem of approximating in $L^2(X,\rho)$ a given function $u:X\to\mathbb{R}$, using its noiseless pointwise evaluations at random samples. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Giovanni Migliorati

We study the approximation properties of random ReLU features through their reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). We first prove a universality theorem for the RKHS induced by random features whose feature maps are of the form of nodes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-19 Yitong Sun , Anna Gilbert , Ambuj Tewari

We discuss the expressive power of neural networks which use the non-smooth ReLU activation function $\varrho(x) = \max\{0,x\}$ by analyzing the approximation theoretic properties of such networks. The existing results mainly fall into two…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Felix Voigtlaender , Philipp Petersen

We prove exponential expressivity with stable ReLU Neural Networks (ReLU NNs) in $H^1(\Omega)$ for weighted analytic function classes in certain polytopal domains $\Omega$, in space dimension $d=2,3$. Functions in these classes are locally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Carlo Marcati , Joost A. A. Opschoor , Philipp C. Petersen , Christoph Schwab

We investigate non-adaptive methods of deep ReLU neural network approximation in Bochner spaces $L_2({\mathbb U}^\infty, X, \mu)$ of functions on ${\mathbb U}^\infty$ taking values in a separable Hilbert space $X$, where ${\mathbb…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-15 Dinh Dũng , Van Kien Nguyen , Duong Thanh Pham

We propose a randomized lattice algorithm for approximating multivariate periodic functions over the $d$-dimensional unit cube from the weighted Korobov space with mixed smoothness $\alpha > 1/2$ and product weights…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Mou Cai , Takashi Goda , Yoshihito Kazashi

We study estimation of a multivariate function $f:{\bf R}^d \to {\bf R}$ when the observations are available from function $Af$, where $A$ is a known linear operator. Both the Gaussian white noise model and density estimation are studied.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Jussi Klemelä , Enno Mammen

We consider in this paper the optimal approximations of convex univariate functions with feed-forward Relu neural networks. We are interested in the following question: what is the minimal approximation error given the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Bo Liu , Yi Liang

A new non-linear variant of a quantitative extension of the uniform boundedness principle is used to show sharpness of error bounds for univariate approximation by sums of sigmoid and ReLU functions. Single hidden layer feedforward neural…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Steffen Goebbels

In this paper we are concerned with the approximation of functions by single hidden layer neural networks with ReLU activation functions on the unit circle. In particular, we are interested in the case when the number of data-points exceeds…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Benny Avelin , Vesa Julin

We present SiLU network constructions whose approximation efficiency depends critically on proper hyperparameter tuning. For the square function $x^2$, with optimally chosen shift $a$ and scale $\beta$, we achieve approximation error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Koffi O. Ayena

Convolutional neural networks have shown impressive abilities in many applications, especially those related to the classification tasks. However, for the regression problem, the abilities of convolutional structures have not been fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Zhiying Fang , Guang Cheng

We prove a precise geometric description of all one layer ReLU networks $z(x;\theta)$ with a single linear unit and input/output dimensions equal to one that interpolate a given dataset $\mathcal D=\{(x_i,f(x_i))\}$ and, among all such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-28 Boris Hanin

This paper investigates a perceptron, a simple neural network model, with ReLU activation and a ridge-regularized mean squared error (RR-MSE). Our approach leverages the fact that the RR-MSE for ReLU perceptron is piecewise polynomial,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Ryoya Fukasaku , Yutaro Kabata , Akifumi Okuno

Kernel ridge regression is used to approximate the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in a one-dimensional box as a functional of their density. The properties of different kernels and methods of cross-validation are explored, and…

Given a function $u\in L^2=L^2(D,\mu)$, where $D\subset \mathbb R^d$ and $\mu$ is a measure on $D$, and a linear subspace $V_n\subset L^2$ of dimension $n$, we show that near-best approximation of $u$ in $V_n$ can be computed from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Albert Cohen , Matthieu Dolbeault

The foundations of deep learning are supported by the seemingly opposing perspectives of approximation or learning theory. The former advocates for large/expressive models that need not generalize, while the latter considers classes that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ruiyang Hong , Anastasis Kratsios

We propose a dimension reduction technique for Bayesian inverse problems with nonlinear forward operators, non-Gaussian priors, and non-Gaussian observation noise. The likelihood function is approximated by a ridge function, i.e., a map…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Olivier Zahm , Tiangang Cui , Kody Law , Alessio Spantini , Youssef Marzouk

In this paper, we consider one dimensional (shallow) ReLU neural networks in which weights are chosen randomly and only the terminal layer is trained. First, we mathematically show that for such networks L2-regularized regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jakob Heiss , Josef Teichmann , Hanna Wutte