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We consider the natural problem of learning a ReLU network from queries, which was recently remotivated by model extraction attacks. In this work, we present a polynomial-time algorithm that can learn a depth-two ReLU network from queries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Amit Daniely , Elad Granot

We investigate the complexity of training a two-layer ReLU neural network with weight decay regularization. Previous research has shown that the optimal solution of this problem can be found by solving a standard cone-constrained convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

The paper ``Tropical Geometry of Deep Neural Networks'' by L. Zhang et al. introduces an equivalence between integer-valued neural networks (IVNN) with $\text{ReLU}_{t}$ and tropical rational functions, which come with a map to polytopes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Eric Dolores-Cuenca , Aldo Guzman-Saenz , Sangil Kim , Susana Lopez-Moreno , Jose Mendoza-Cortes

We find that simple neural networks with ReLU activation generate polytopes as an approximation of a unit sphere in various dimensions. The species of polytopes are regulated by the network architecture, such as the number of units and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Koji Hashimoto , Tomoya Naito , Hisashi Naito

Tropical Geometry and Mathematical Morphology share the same max-plus and min-plus semiring arithmetic and matrix algebra. In this chapter we summarize some of their main ideas and common (geometric and algebraic) structure, generalize and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Petros Maragos , Emmanouil Theodosis

We present a new model of neural networks called Min-Max-Plus Neural Networks (MMP-NNs) based on operations in tropical arithmetic. In general, an MMP-NN is composed of three types of alternately stacked layers, namely linear layers,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Ye Luo , Shiqing Fan

In the last few years there has been a growing interest towards methods for statistical inference and learning based on computational geometry and, notably, tropical geometry, that is, the study of algebraic varieties over the min-plus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Davide Barbarossa , Paolo Pistone

In the past few years, the problem of distributed consensus has received a lot of attention, particularly in the framework of ad hoc sensor networks. Most methods proposed in the literature address the consensus averaging problem by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Effrosyni Kokiopoulou , Pascal Frossard

Finding a common factor of two multivariate polynomials with approximate coefficients is a problem in symbolic-numeric computing. Taking a tropical view on this problem leads to efficient preprocessing techniques, applying polyhedral…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-02 Danko Adrovic , Jan Verschelde

We consider constrained optimization problems defined in the tropical algebra setting on a linearly ordered, algebraically complete (radicable) idempotent semifield (a semiring with idempotent addition and invertible multiplication). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Nikolai Krivulin

Tropical mathematics redefines the rules of arithmetic by replacing addition with taking a maximum, and by replacing multiplication with addition. After briefly discussing a tropical version of linear algebra, we study polynomials build…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Ralph Morrison

To enhance solution accuracy and training efficiency in neural network approximation to partial differential equations, partitioned neural networks can be used as a solution surrogate instead of a single large and deep neural network…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Hee Jun Yang , Hyea Hyun Kim

We revisit the Universal Approximation Theorem(UAT) through the lens of the tropical geometry of neural networks and introduce a constructive, geometry-aware initialization for sigmoidal multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs). Tropical geometry…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Yi-Shan Chu , Yueh-Cheng Kuo

The growth of tropical geometry has generated significant interest in the tropical semiring in the past decade. However, there are other semirings in tropical algebra that provide more information, such as the symmetrized (max, +),…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek , Davorin Lesnik

We consider deep neural networks, in which the output of each node is a quadratic function of its inputs. Similar to other deep architectures, these networks can compactly represent any function on a finite training set. The main goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Roi Livni , Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ohad Shamir

We develop a tropical analogue of the classical double description method allowing one to compute an internal representation (in terms of vertices) of a polyhedron defined externally (by inequalities). The heart of the tropical algorithm is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Xavier Allamigeon , Stephane Gaubert , Eric Goubault

We show the existence of a deep neural network capable of approximating a wide class of high-dimensional approximations. The construction of the proposed neural network is based on a quasi-optimal polynomial approximation. We show that this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Joseph Daws , Clayton Webster

This paper presents a new mathematical framework to analyze the loss functions of deep neural networks with ReLU functions. Furthermore, as as application of this theory, we prove that the loss functions can reconstruct the inputs of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-21 Akiyoshi Sannai

The algebraic foundation of tropical polynomial algebra provides the framework for the geometric construction of the supplement and the reversal of tropical varieties, thereby inducing a duality of reduced tropical varieties; for classes of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-04 Zur Izhakian , Louis Rowen

We describe a new method for computing tropical linear spaces and more general duals of polyhedral subdivisions. It is based on Ganter's algorithm (1984) for finite closure systems.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Simon Hampe , Michael Joswig , Benjamin Schröter