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Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are demonstrating remarkable promise in integrating physical models with gappy and noisy observational data, but they still struggle in cases where the target functions to be approximated exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Sifan Wang , Hanwen Wang , Paris Perdikaris

In this paper, we study the generalization performance of min $\ell_2$-norm overfitting solutions for the neural tangent kernel (NTK) model of a two-layer neural network with ReLU activation that has no bias term. We show that, depending on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Peizhong Ju , Xiaojun Lin , Ness B. Shroff

Natural gradient descent has a remarkable property that in the small learning rate limit, it displays an invariance with respect to network reparameterizations, leading to robust training behavior even for highly covariant network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-11 Christian Goodbrake

The Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) framework explains optimization in over-parameterized neural networks via approximately linearized dynamics, yielding exponential convergence guarantees. However, existing results are often overly pessimistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruchirinkil Marreddy , Chaoyue Liu

Infinite width limit has shed light on generalization and optimization aspects of deep learning by establishing connections between neural networks and kernel methods. Despite their importance, the utility of these kernel methods was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Insu Han , Amir Zandieh , Jaehoon Lee , Roman Novak , Lechao Xiao , Amin Karbasi

Multi-layer feedforward networks have been used to approximate a wide range of nonlinear functions. An important and fundamental problem is to understand the learnability of a network model through its statistical risk, or the expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Gen Li , Jie Ding

Recent studies show that a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) is not a suitable space to model functions by neural networks as the curse of dimensionality (CoD) cannot be evaded when trying to approximate even a single ReLU neuron…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Fanghui Liu , Leello Dadi , Volkan Cevher

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

The paper contains approximation guarantees for neural networks that are trained with gradient flow, with error measured in the continuous $L_2(\mathbb{S}^{d-1})$-norm on the $d$-dimensional unit sphere and targets that are Sobolev smooth.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 G. Welper

This paper studies the infinite-width limit of deep linear neural networks initialized with random parameters. We obtain that, when the number of neurons diverges, the training dynamics converge (in a precise sense) to the dynamics obtained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Lénaïc Chizat , Maria Colombo , Xavier Fernández-Real , Alessio Figalli

A quantum neural network (QNN) is a parameterized mapping efficiently implementable on near-term Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. It can be used for supervised learning when combined with classical gradient-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Xuchen You , Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Boyang Chen , Xiaodi Wu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) do not have a predictable recognition behavior with respect to the input resolution change. This prevents the feasibility of deployment on different input image resolutions for a specific model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Duo Li , Anbang Yao , Qifeng Chen

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) is a popular class of techniques that strive to adapt large models in a scalable and resource-efficient manner. Yet, the mechanisms underlying their training performance and generalization remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zahra Rahimi Afzal , Tara Esmaeilbeig , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Mesrob I. Ohannessian

This work analyzes Graph Neural Networks, a generalization of Fully-Connected Deep Neural Nets on Graph structured data, when their width, that is the number of nodes in each fullyconnected layer is increasing to infinity. Infinite Width…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yunus Cobanoglu

We analyze the generalization properties of two-layer neural networks in the neural tangent kernel (NTK) regime, trained with gradient descent (GD). For early stopped GD we derive fast rates of convergence that are known to be minimax…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-18 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

We establish four structural results for feature learning in wide two-layer neural networks under the Maximal Update Parametrization ($\mu$P). First, we prove global existence and uniqueness of the mean-field limit of noisy gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Akmal Xodarev

We investigate the spectral properties of linear-width feed-forward neural networks, where the sample size is asymptotically proportional to network width. Empirically, we show that the spectra of weight in this high dimensional regime are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhichao Wang , Andrew Engel , Anand Sarwate , Ioana Dumitriu , Tony Chiang

Overparametrization is a key factor in the absence of convexity to explain global convergence of gradient descent (GD) for neural networks. Beside the well studied lazy regime, infinite width (mean field) analysis has been developed for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Raphaël Barboni , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

Understanding the black-box prediction for neural networks is challenging. To achieve this, early studies have designed influence function (IF) to measure the effect of removing a single training point on neural networks. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Rui Zhang , Shihua Zhang

There currently exist two extreme viewpoints for neural network feature learning -- (i) Neural networks simply implement a kernel method (a la NTK) and hence no features are learned (ii) Neural networks can represent (and hence learn)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mahesh Lorik Yadav , Harish Guruprasad Ramaswamy , Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan