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The use of neural networks as function approximators has enabled many advances in reinforcement learning (RL). The generalization power of neural networks combined with advances in RL algorithms has reignited the field of artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Christopher Lazarus , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

This paper establishes an approximation theorem for randomized neural networks (RaNNs) whose hidden-layer parameters are uniformly sampled from a prescribed bounded domain. Our analysis shows that, for RaNNs of the form $\mathop{\sum}_i W_i…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Ran Bi , Weibing Deng

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

Recently, the deep neural network (derived from the artificial neural network) has attracted many researchers' attention by its outstanding performance. However, since this network requires high-performance GPUs and large storage, it is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Song Wang , Dongchun Ren , Li Chen , Wei Fan , Jun Sun , Satoshi Naoi

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

Many practical problems need the output of a machine learning model to satisfy a set of constraints, $K$. Nevertheless, there is no known guarantee that classical neural network architectures can exactly encode constraints while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Anastasis Kratsios , Behnoosh Zamanlooy , Tianlin Liu , Ivan Dokmanić

For binary neural networks (BNNs) to become the mainstream on-device computer vision algorithm, they must achieve a superior speed-vs-accuracy tradeoff than 8-bit quantization and establish a similar degree of general applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Guhong Nie , Lirui Xiao , Menglong Zhu , Dongliang Chu , Yue Shen , Peng Li , Kang Yang , Li Du , Bo Chen

Deep Learning has revolutionized vision via convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and natural language processing via recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, success stories of Deep Learning with standard feed-forward neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Günter Klambauer , Thomas Unterthiner , Andreas Mayr , Sepp Hochreiter

We introduce a new class of deep neural networks (DNNs) with multilayered tree-like architectures. The architectures are codified using numbers from the ring of integers of non-Archimdean local fields. These rings have a natural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

A key enabler of deploying convolutional neural networks on resource-constrained embedded systems is the binary neural network (BNN). BNNs save on memory and simplify computation by binarizing both features and weights. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Floran de Putter , Henk Corporaal

Neural networks are increasingly evolving towards training large models with big data, a method that has demonstrated superior performance across many tasks. However, this approach introduces an urgent problem: current deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Wei Wang , Qing Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful and flexible framework for representation learning on irregular data. As they generalize the operations of classical CNNs on grids to arbitrary topologies, GNNs also bring much of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mehdi Bahri , Gaétan Bahl , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recurrent and deep neural networks (RNNs/DNNs) are cornerstone architectures in machine learning. Remarkably, RNNs differ from DNNs only by weight sharing, as can be shown through unrolling in time. How does this structural similarity fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jan P. Bauer , Kirsten Fischer , Moritz Helias , Agostina Palmigiano

In this paper, we leverage a recent deep kernel representer theorem to connect kernel based learning and (deep) neural networks in order to understand their interplay. In particular, we show that the use of special types of kernels yields…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Tizian Wenzel , Gabriele Santin , Bernard Haasdonk

We study feedforward neural networks with inputs from a topological space (TFNNs). We prove a universal approximation theorem for shallow TFNNs, which demonstrates their capacity to approximate any continuous function defined on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Vugar Ismailov

Leveraging the infinite dimensional neural network architecture we proposed in arXiv:2109.13512v4 and which can process inputs from Fr\'echet spaces, and using the universal approximation property shown therein, we now largely extend the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Luca Galimberti

We present the Input-Connected Multilayer Perceptron (IC-MLP), a feedforward neural network architecture in which each hidden neuron receives, in addition to the outputs of the preceding layer, a direct affine connection from the raw input.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Vugar Ismailov

In this work, we propose a balanced multi-component and multi-layer neural network (MMNN) structure to accurately and efficiently approximate functions with complex features, in terms of both degrees of freedom and computational cost. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shijun Zhang , Hongkai Zhao , Yimin Zhong , Haomin Zhou

We present a neural network architecture, Bispectral Neural Networks (BNNs) for learning representations that are invariant to the actions of compact commutative groups on the space over which a signal is defined. The model incorporates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Sophia Sanborn , Christian Shewmake , Bruno Olshausen , Christopher Hillar

A neural network computes a function. A central property of neural networks is that they are "universal approximators:" for a given continuous function, there exists a neural network that can approximate it arbitrarily well, given enough…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Arthur Choi , Ruocheng Wang , Adnan Darwiche