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This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework for the analysis of vector-valued neural networks through the development of vector-valued variation spaces, a new class of reproducing kernel Banach spaces. These spaces emerge from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-21 Joseph Shenouda , Rahul Parhi , Kangwook Lee , Robert D. Nowak

A wide variety of activation functions have been proposed for neural networks. The Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) is especially popular today. There are many practical reasons that motivate the use of the ReLU. This paper provides new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

We investigate the function-space optimality (specifically, the Banach-space optimality) of a large class of shallow neural architectures with multivariate nonlinearities/activation functions. To that end, we construct a new family of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-13 Rahul Parhi , Michael Unser

We develop a variational framework to understand the properties of the functions learned by neural networks fit to data. We propose and study a family of continuous-domain linear inverse problems with total variation-like regularization in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-15 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

Deep learning has exhibited remarkable results across diverse areas. To understand its success, substantial research has been directed towards its theoretical foundations. Nevertheless, the majority of these studies examine how well deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-11 Hao Liu , Jiahui Cheng , Wenjing Liao

We introduce a variational framework to learn the activation functions of deep neural networks. Our aim is to increase the capacity of the network while controlling an upper-bound of the actual Lipschitz constant of the input-output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Shayan Aziznejad , Harshit Gupta , Joaquim Campos , Michael Unser

Characterizing the function spaces corresponding to neural networks can provide a way to understand their properties. In this paper we discuss how the theory of reproducing kernel Banach spaces can be used to tackle this challenge. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-27 Francesca Bartolucci , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco , Stefano Vigogna

Deep learning has been wildly successful in practice and most state-of-the-art machine learning methods are based on neural networks. Lacking, however, is a rigorous mathematical theory that adequately explains the amazing performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

This article delves into the study of the theory of regularized learning in Banach spaces for linear-functional data. It encompasses discussions on representer theorems, pseudo-approximation theorems, and convergence theorems. Regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qi Ye

Neural networks are a powerful class of functions that can be trained with simple gradient descent to achieve state-of-the-art performance on a variety of applications. Despite their practical success, there is a paucity of results that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Bo Xie , Yingyu Liang , Le Song

Characterizing the function spaces defined by neural networks helps understanding the corresponding learning models and their inductive bias. While in some limits neural networks correspond to function spaces that are Hilbert spaces, these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-22 Francesca Bartolucci , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco , Stefano Vigogna

Deep learning algorithms demonstrate a surprising ability to learn high-dimensional tasks from limited examples. This is commonly attributed to the depth of neural networks, enabling them to build a hierarchy of abstract, low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Francesco Cagnetta , Leonardo Petrini , Umberto M. Tomasini , Alessandro Favero , Matthieu Wyart

We develop Banach spaces for ReLU neural networks of finite depth $L$ and infinite width. The spaces contain all finite fully connected $L$-layer networks and their $L^2$-limiting objects under bounds on the natural path-norm. Under this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-31 Weinan E , Stephan Wojtowytsch

This paper introduces a hypothesis space for deep learning based on deep neural networks (DNNs). By treating a DNN as a function of two variables - the input variable and the parameter variable - we consider the set of DNNs where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-15 Rui Wang , Yuesheng Xu , Mingsong Yan

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

Randomized Neural Networks explore the behavior of neural systems where the majority of connections are fixed, either in a stochastic or a deterministic fashion. Typical examples of such systems consist of multi-layered neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Claudio Gallicchio , Simone Scardapane

The paper briefy reviews several recent results on hierarchical architectures for learning from examples, that may formally explain the conditions under which Deep Convolutional Neural Networks perform much better in function approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Hrushikesh Mhaskar , Tomaso Poggio

We study two-layer neural networks whose domain and range are Banach spaces with separable preduals. In addition, we assume that the image space is equipped with a partial order, i.e. it is a Riesz space. As the nonlinearity we choose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yury Korolev

This work suggests using sampling theory to analyze the function space represented by neural networks. First, it shows, under the assumption of a finite input domain, which is the common case in training neural networks, that the function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Raja Giryes

Sequential learning paradigms pose challenges for gradient-based deep learning due to difficulties incorporating new data and retaining prior knowledge. While Gaussian processes elegantly tackle these problems, they struggle with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-19 Aidan Scannell , Riccardo Mereu , Paul Chang , Ella Tamir , Joni Pajarinen , Arno Solin
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