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Training deep neural networks is a challenging non-convex optimization problem. Recent work has proven that the strong duality holds (which means zero duality gap) for regularized finite-width two-layer ReLU networks and consequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Yifei Wang , Tolga Ergen , Mert Pilanci

In 2017, Hanin and Sellke showed that the class of arbitrarily deep, real-valued, feed-forward and ReLU-activated networks of width w forms a dense subset of the space of continuous functions on R^n, with respect to the topology of uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Joris Dommel , Sven A. Wegner

One of the most influential results in neural network theory is the universal approximation theorem [1, 2, 3] which states that continuous functions can be approximated to within arbitrary accuracy by single-hidden-layer feedforward neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Clemens Hutter , Recep Gül , Helmut Bölcskei

While many approaches to make neural networks more fathomable have been proposed, they are restricted to interrogating the network with input data. Measures for characterizing and monitoring structural properties, however, have not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Bastian Rieck , Matteo Togninalli , Christian Bock , Michael Moor , Max Horn , Thomas Gumbsch , Karsten Borgwardt

We establish the fundamental limits in the approximation of Lipschitz functions by deep ReLU neural networks with finite-precision weights. Specifically, three regimes, namely under-, over-, and proper quantization, in terms of minimax…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-06 Weigutian Ou , Philipp Schenkel , Helmut Bölcskei

In a neural network with ReLU activations, the number of piecewise linear regions in the output can grow exponentially with depth. However, this is highly unlikely to happen when the initial parameters are sampled randomly, which therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Max Milkert , David Hyde , Forrest Laine

Self-attention architectures, which are rapidly pushing the frontier in natural language processing, demonstrate a surprising depth-inefficient behavior: previous works indicate that increasing the internal representation (network width) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Yoav Levine , Noam Wies , Or Sharir , Hofit Bata , Amnon Shashua

Approximation and learning of classifiers of large data sets by neural networks in terms of high-dimensional geometry and statistical learning theory are investigated. The influence of the VC dimension of sets of input-output functions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Vera Kurkova , Marcello Sanguineti

Topological Neural Networks (TNNs) incorporate higher-order relational information beyond pairwise interactions, enabling richer representations than Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Concurrently, topological descriptors based on persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yogesh Verma , Amauri H Souza , Vikas Garg

A key attribute that drives the unprecedented success of modern Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) on learning tasks which involve sequential data, is their ability to model intricate long-term temporal dependencies. However, a well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Yoav Levine , Or Sharir , Alon Ziv , Amnon Shashua

Deep neural networks are widely used prediction algorithms whose performance often improves as the number of weights increases, leading to over-parametrization. We consider a two-layered neural network whose first layer is frozen while the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Roman Worschech , Bernd Rosenow

Residual deep neural networks (ResNets) are mathematically described as interacting particle systems. In the case of infinitely many layers the ResNet leads to a system of coupled system of ordinary differential equations known as neural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 M. Herty , A. Thuenen , T. Trimborn , G. Visconti

A general upper bound for topological entropy of switched nonlinear systems is constructed, using an asymptotic average of upper limits of the matrix measures of Jacobian matrices of strongly persistent individual modes, weighted by their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Guosong Yang , Daniel Liberzon , João P. Hespanha

This work presents a novel means for understanding learning dynamics and scaling relations in neural networks. We show that certain measures on the spectrum of the empirical neural tangent kernel, specifically entropy and trace, yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Samuel Tovey , Sven Krippendorf , Michael Spannowsky , Konstantin Nikolaou , Christian Holm

We establish, for the first time, connections between feedforward neural networks with ReLU activation and tropical geometry --- we show that the family of such neural networks is equivalent to the family of tropical rational maps. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Liwen Zhang , Gregory Naitzat , Lek-Heng Lim

In this paper we presented a novel constructive approach for training deep neural networks using geometric approaches. We show that a topological covering can be used to define a class of distributed linear matrix inequalities, which in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 W. Brent Daniel , Enoch Yeung

It is widely appreciated that well-balanced excitation and inhibition are necessary for proper function in neural networks. However, in principle, such balance could be achieved by many possible configurations of excitatory and inhibitory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-14 Vidit Agrawal , Andrew B. Cowley , Qusay Alfaori , Juan G. Restrepo , Daniel B. Larremore , Woodrow L. Shew

We consider the phenomenon of adversarial examples in ReLU networks with independent gaussian parameters. For networks of constant depth and with a large range of widths (for instance, it suffices if the width of each layer is polynomial in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Peter L. Bartlett , Sébastien Bubeck , Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri

We study the approximation of the median of $d$ inputs using ReLU neural networks. We present depth-width tradeoffs under several settings, culminating in a constant-depth, linear-width construction that achieves exponentially small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Abhigyan Dutta , Itay Safran , Paul Valiant

Deep neural networks have achieved a great success in solving many machine learning and computer vision problems. The main contribution of this paper is to develop a deep network based on Tucker tensor decomposition, and analyze its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Ye Liu , Junjun Pan , Michael Ng