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We prove a new generalization bound that shows for any class of linear predictors in Gaussian space, the Rademacher complexity of the class and the training error under any continuous loss $\ell$ can control the test error under all Moreau…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-24 Lijia Zhou , Frederic Koehler , Pragya Sur , Danica J. Sutherland , Nathan Srebro

Theoretical analyses of Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) are standardly framed within the Real-RAM model of computation. In this setting, training even simple neural networks is known to be $\exists \mathbb{R}$-complete -- a complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ilan Doron-Arad , Elchanan Mossel

Recent works have cast some light on the mystery of why deep nets fit any data and generalize despite being very overparametrized. This paper analyzes training and generalization for a simple 2-layer ReLU net with random initialization, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Sanjeev Arora , Simon S. Du , Wei Hu , Zhiyuan Li , Ruosong Wang

Recent advances in deep learning have given us some very promising results on the generalization ability of deep neural networks, however literature still lacks a comprehensive theory explaining why heavily over-parametrized models are able…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Dániel Rácz , Mihály Petreczky , András Csertán , Bálint Daróczy

Residual connections significantly boost the performance of deep neural networks. However, there are few theoretical results that address the influence of residuals on the hypothesis complexity and the generalization ability of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-03 Fengxiang He , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao

In this short note we consider random fully connected ReLU networks of width $n$ and depth $L$ equipped with a mean-field weight initialization. Our purpose is to study the dependence on $n$ and $L$ of the maximal update ($\mu$P) learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Samy Jelassi , Boris Hanin , Ziwei Ji , Sashank J. Reddi , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Sanjiv Kumar

Understanding the computational complexity of training simple neural networks with rectified linear units (ReLUs) has recently been a subject of intensive research. Closing gaps and complementing results from the literature, we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Vincent Froese , Christoph Hertrich , Rolf Niedermeier

This paper proposes a novel method for deep learning based on the analytical convolution of multidimensional Gaussian mixtures. In contrast to tensors, these do not suffer from the curse of dimensionality and allow for a compact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Adam Celarek , Pedro Hermosilla , Bernhard Kerbl , Timo Ropinski , Michael Wimmer

In this paper, we study the factors that contribute to the effect of oversmoothing in deep Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Specifically, our analysis is based on a new metric (Mean Average Squared Distance - $MASED$) to quantify the extent of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Dimitrios Kelesis , Dimitris Fotakis , Georgios Paliouras

We give a simple proof for the global convergence of gradient descent in training deep ReLU networks with the standard square loss, and show some of its improvements over the state-of-the-art. In particular, while prior works require all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Quynh Nguyen

We establish a functional large deviation principle for fully connected multi-layer perceptrons with i.i.d. Gaussian weights (LeCun initialization) and general Lipschitz activation functions, including therefore the popular case of ReLU.…

A new method is proposed for analyzing complexity and studying the information in random geometric networks using Tsallis entropy tool. Tsallis entropy of the ensemble of random geometric networks is calculated based on the components of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-20 O. K. Kazemi , S. M. Taheri

We establish novel rates for the Gaussian approximation of random deep neural networks with Gaussian parameters (weights and biases) and Lipschitz activation functions, in the wide limit. Our bounds apply for the joint output of a network…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Dario Trevisan

In recent years, several results in the supervised learning setting suggested that classical statistical learning-theoretic measures, such as VC dimension, do not adequately explain the performance of deep learning models which prompted a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Pascal Mattia Esser , Leena Chennuru Vankadara , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

An interesting approach to analyzing neural networks that has received renewed attention is to examine the equivalent kernel of the neural network. This is based on the fact that a fully connected feedforward network with one hidden layer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Russell Tsuchida , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Marcus Gallagher

Generalised degrees provide a natural bridge between local and global topological properties of networks. We define the generalised degree to be the number of neighbours of a node within one and two steps respectively. Tailored random graph…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-09-17 Ekaterina S. Roberts , Anthonius C. C. Coolen

In this work, we consider the problem of learning one hidden layer ReLU neural networks with inputs from $\mathbb{R}^d$. We show that this learning problem is hard under standard cryptographic assumptions even when: (1) the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shuchen Li , Ilias Zadik , Manolis Zampetakis

We examine one-hidden-layer neural networks with random weights. It is well-known that in the limit of infinitely many neurons they simplify to Gaussian processes. For networks with a polynomial activation, we demonstrate that the rate of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Adam Klukowski

It is shown that over-parameterized neural networks can achieve minimax optimal rates of convergence (up to logarithmic factors) for learning functions from certain smooth function classes, if the weights are suitably constrained or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-05 Yunfei Yang , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Deep neural networks are often trained in the over-parametrized regime (i.e. with far more parameters than training examples), and understanding why the training converges to solutions that generalize remains an open problem. Several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-23 Hartmut Maennel , Olivier Bousquet , Sylvain Gelly