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This work addresses two fundamental limitations in neural network approximation theory. We demonstrate that a three-dimensional network architecture enables a significantly more efficient representation of sawtooth functions, which serves…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 ZeYu Li , FengLei Fan , TieYong Zeng

We study the behavior of Lipschitz functions on intrinsic $C^1$ submanifolds of Heisenberg groups: our main result is their almost everywhere tangential Pansu differentiability. We also provide two applications: a Lusin-type approximation…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Antoine Julia , Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo , Davide Vittone

This note shows that, for a fixed Lipschitz constant $L > 0$, one layer neural networks that are $L$-Lipschitz are dense in the set of all $L$-Lipschitz functions with respect to the uniform norm on bounded sets.

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-30 Stephan Eckstein

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks, leading to their increased adoption in high-stakes decision-making systems. However, concerns have arisen about GNNs potentially generating unfair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Anuj Kumar Sirohi , Anjali Gupta , Sandeep Kumar , Amitabha Bagchi , Sayan Ranu

In this paper, we present the Lipschitz regularization theory and algorithms for a novel Loss-Sensitive Generative Adversarial Network (LS-GAN). Specifically, it trains a loss function to distinguish between real and fake samples by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Guo-Jun Qi

It is an elementary fact in the scientific literature that the Lipschitz norm of the realization function of a feedforward fully-connected rectified linear unit (ReLU) artificial neural network (ANN) can, up to a multiplicative constant, be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Arnulf Jentzen , Timo Kröger

We study the fundamental limits to the expressive power of neural networks. Given two sets $F$, $G$ of real-valued functions, we first prove a general lower bound on how well functions in $F$ can be approximated in $L^p(\mu)$ norm by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 El Mehdi Achour , Armand Foucault , Sébastien Gerchinovitz , François Malgouyres

We study the regularity of the score function in score-based generative models and show that it naturally adapts to the smoothness of the data distribution. Under minimal assumptions, we establish Lipschitz estimates that directly support…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Arthur Stéphanovitch

We study the approximation by tensor networks (TNs) of functions from classical smoothness classes. The considered approximation tool combines a tensorization of functions in $L^p([0,1))$, which allows to identify a univariate function with…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Mazen Ali , Anthony Nouy

In this paper, we investigate the underlying factor that leads to failure and success in the training of GANs. We study the property of the optimal discriminative function and show that in many GANs, the gradient from the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Zhiming Zhou , Yuxuan Song , Lantao Yu , Hongwei Wang , Jiadong Liang , Weinan Zhang , Zhihua Zhang , Yong Yu

We study the task of learning Generalized Linear models (GLMs) in the agnostic model under the Gaussian distribution. We give the first polynomial-time algorithm that achieves a constant-factor approximation for \textit{any} monotone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nikos Zarifis , Puqian Wang , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

It is difficult to describe in mathematical terms what a neural network trained on data represents. On the other hand, there is a growing mathematical understanding of what neural networks are in principle capable of representing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Daan Huybrechs

Lipschitz constant is a fundamental property in certified robustness, as smaller values imply robustness to adversarial examples when a model is confident in its prediction. However, identifying the worst-case adversarial examples is known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yongjin Han , Suhyun Kim

Latent position models are widely used for the analysis of networks in a variety of research fields. In fact, these models possess a number of desirable theoretical properties, and are particularly easy to interpret. However, statistical…

Computation · Statistics 2023-03-08 Riccardo Rastelli , Florian Maire , Nial Friel

Research in computational deep learning has directed considerable efforts towards hardware-oriented optimisations for deep neural networks, via the simplification of the activation functions, or the quantization of both activations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Gian Paolo Leonardi , Matteo Spallanzani

We consider high order approximations of the solution of the stochastic filtering problem, derive their pathwise representation in the spirit of the earlier work of Clark and Davis and prove their robustness property. In particular, we show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Dan Crisan , Alexander Lobbe , Salvador Ortiz-Latorre

We introduce another new type of combinations of Bernstein operators in this paper, which can be used to approximate the functions with inner singularities. The direct and inverse results of the weighted approximation of this new type…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Wen-ming Lu , Lin Zhang

This paper introduces the first statistically consistent estimator of the optimal transport map between two probability distributions, based on neural networks. Building on theoretical and practical advances in the field of Lipschitz neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-17 Alberto González-Sanz , Lucas de Lara , Louis Béthune , Jean-Michel Loubes

Operator learning, the approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces using machine learning, has gained increasing research attention in recent years. Approximate operators, learned from data, can serve as efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ben Adcock , Michael Griebel , Gregor Maier

Neural Networks (NNs) are the method of choice for building learning algorithms. Their popularity stems from their empirical success on several challenging learning problems. However, most scholars agree that a convincing theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Ronald DeVore , Boris Hanin , Guergana Petrova