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This paper studies the approximation capabilities of neural networks that combine layer normalization (LN) with linear layers. We prove that networks consisting of two linear layers with parallel layer normalizations (PLNs) inserted between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yunhao Ni , Yuxin Guo , Yuhe Liu , Wenxin Sun , Jie Luo , Wenjun Wu , Lei Huang

We point out that (continuous or discontinuous) piecewise linear functions on a convex polytope mesh can be represented by two-hidden-layer ReLU neural networks in a weak sense. In addition, the numbers of neurons of the two hidden layers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Pengzhan Jin

This paper addresses the growing need to process non-Euclidean data, by introducing a geometric deep learning (GDL) framework for building universal feedforward-type models compatible with differentiable manifold geometries. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Anastasis Kratsios , Leonie Papon

In this paper, we aim at developing scalable neural network-type learning systems. Motivated by the idea of "constructive neural networks" in approximation theory, we focus on "constructing" rather than "training" feed-forward neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Shaobo Lin , Jinshan Zeng , Xiaoqin Zhang

In this paper we consider the limiting case of neural networks (NNs) architectures when the number of neurons in each hidden layer and the number of hidden layers tend to infinity thus forming a continuum, and we derive approximation errors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Christophe Prieur , Mircea Lazar , Bogdan Robu

Neural networks with random hidden nodes have gained increasing interest from researchers and practical applications. This is due to their unique features such as very fast training and universal approximation property. In these networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Grzegorz Dudek

The remarkable successes of neural networks in a huge variety of inverse problems have fueled their adoption in disciplines ranging from medical imaging to seismic analysis over the past decade. However, the high dimensionality of such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Santhosh Karnik , Rongrong Wang , Mark Iwen

We introduce a class of fully-connected neural networks whose activation functions, rather than being pointwise, rescale feature vectors by a function depending only on their norm. We call such networks radial neural networks, extending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Iordan Ganev , Twan van Laarhoven , Robin Walters

The stunning empirical successes of neural networks currently lack rigorous theoretical explanation. What form would such an explanation take, in the face of existing complexity-theoretic lower bounds? A first step might be to show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Le Song , Santosh Vempala , John Wilmes , Bo Xie

Overparameterized neural networks enjoy great representation power on complex data, and more importantly yield sufficiently smooth output, which is crucial to their generalization and robustness. Most existing function approximation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-10 Hao Liu , Minshuo Chen , Siawpeng Er , Wenjing Liao , Tong Zhang , Tuo Zhao

A feed-forward neural network is demonstrated to efficiently unfold the energy distribution of protons and alpha particles passing through passive material. This model-independent approach works with unbinned data and does not require…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-16 Ming-Liang Wong , Andrew Edmonds , Chen Wu

We propose a hierarchical training algorithm for standard feed-forward neural networks that adaptively extends the network architecture as soon as the optimization reaches a stationary point. By solving small (low-dimensional) optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Michael Feischl , Alexander Rieder , Fabian Zehetgruber

We present flattened convolutional neural networks that are designed for fast feedforward execution. The redundancy of the parameters, especially weights of the convolutional filters in convolutional neural networks has been extensively…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Jonghoon Jin , Aysegul Dundar , Eugenio Culurciello

This paper concerns the universal approximation property with neural networks in variable Lebesgue spaces. We show that, whenever the exponent function of the space is bounded, every function can be approximated with shallow neural networks…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Ángela Capel , Jesús Ocáriz

In the present study, we investigate a universality of neural networks, which concerns a density of the set of two-layer neural networks in a function spaces. There are many works that handle the convergence over compact sets. In the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Naoya Hatano , Masahiro Ikeda , Isao Ishikawa , Yoshihiro Sawano

In this paper we use deep feedforward artificial neural networks to approximate solutions to partial differential equations in complex geometries. We show how to modify the backpropagation algorithm to compute the partial derivatives of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-28 Jens Berg , Kaj Nyström

Feedforward neural networks with random hidden nodes suffer from a problem with the generation of random weights and biases as these are difficult to set optimally to obtain a good projection space. Typically, random parameters are drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Grzegorz Dudek

We present a constructive approximation framework for analyzing the expressive power of Fourier residual networks in approximating a broad class of one-dimensional functions. Our study covers both piecewise continuous functions -- including…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Owen Davis , Mohammad Motamed , Olof Runborg

Binary neural networks have attracted tremendous attention due to the efficiency for deploying them on mobile devices. Since the weak expression ability of binary weights and features, their accuracy is usually much lower than that of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Mingzhu Shen , Kai Han , Chunjing Xu , Yunhe Wang

Neural ODEs and i-ResNet are recently proposed methods for enforcing invertibility of residual neural models. Having a generic technique for constructing invertible models can open new avenues for advances in learning systems, but so far…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Han Zhang , Xi Gao , Jacob Unterman , Tom Arodz