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Learning approximations to smooth target functions of many variables from finite sets of pointwise samples is an important task in scientific computing and its many applications in computational science and engineering. Despite well over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

Despite the widespread adoption of Transformer models for NLP tasks, the expressive power of these models is not well-understood. In this paper, we establish that Transformer models are universal approximators of continuous permutation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Chulhee Yun , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sashank J. Reddi , Sanjiv Kumar

Deep neural networks have been widely used as universal approximators for functions with inherent physical structures, including permutation symmetry. In this paper, we construct symmetric deep neural networks to approximate symmetric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yulong Lu , Tong Mao , Jinchao Xu , Yahong Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) generalize remarkably well without explicit regularization even in the strongly over-parametrized regime where classical learning theory would instead predict that they would severely overfit. While many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-23 Guillermo Valle-Pérez , Chico Q. Camargo , Ard A. Louis

Integrating functions on discrete domains into neural networks is key to developing their capability to reason about discrete objects. But, discrete domains are (1) not naturally amenable to gradient-based optimization, and (2) incompatible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Nikolaos Karalias , Joshua Robinson , Andreas Loukas , Stefanie Jegelka

Deep Metric Learning (DML) methods aim at learning an embedding space in which distances are closely related to the inherent semantic similarity of the inputs. Previous studies have shown that popular benchmark datasets often contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Oriol Barbany , Xiaofan Lin , Muhammet Bastan , Arnab Dhua

As deep learning applications continue to become more diverse, an interesting question arises: Can general problem solving arise from jointly learning several such diverse tasks? To approach this question, deep multi-task learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

We study shallow and deep neural networks whose inputs range over a general topological space. The model is built from a prescribed family of continuous feature maps and reduces to multilayer feedforward networks in the Euclidean case. We…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Vugar Ismailov

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

Current deep learning methods are regarded as favorable if they empirically perform well on dedicated test sets. This mentality is seamlessly reflected in the resurfacing area of continual learning, where consecutively arriving data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Martin Mundt , Yongwon Hong , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

Is there any theoretical guarantee for the approximation ability of neural networks? The answer to this question is the "Universal Approximation Theorem for Neural Networks". This theorem states that a neural network is dense in a certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Takato Nishijima

Time-series data exists in every corner of real-world systems and services, ranging from satellites in the sky to wearable devices on human bodies. Learning representations by extracting and inferring valuable information from these time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Patara Trirat , Yooju Shin , Junhyeok Kang , Youngeun Nam , Jihye Na , Minyoung Bae , Joeun Kim , Byunghyun Kim , Jae-Gil Lee

This paper addresses the task of set prediction using deep learning. This is important because the output of many computer vision tasks, including image tagging and object detection, are naturally expressed as sets of entities rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 S. Hamid Rezatofighi , Vijay Kumar B G , Anton Milan , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Anthony Dick , Ian Reid

Deep Learning is a consolidated, state-of-the-art Machine Learning tool to fit a function when provided with large data sets of examples. However, in regression tasks, the straightforward application of Deep Learning models provides a point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Axel Brando , Jose A. Rodríguez-Serrano , Mauricio Ciprian , Roberto Maestre , Jordi Vitrià

Representation learning has been widely studied in the context of meta-learning, enabling rapid learning of new tasks through shared representations. Recent works such as MAML have explored using fine-tuning-based metrics, which measure the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Kurtland Chua , Qi Lei , Jason D. Lee

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

Embedding of large but redundant data, such as images or text, in a hierarchy of lower-dimensional spaces is one of the key features of representation learning approaches, which nowadays provide state-of-the-art solutions to problems once…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Gianluca Berardi , Luca De Luigi , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

The universal approximation property of various machine learning models is currently only understood on a case-by-case basis, limiting the rapid development of new theoretically justified neural network architectures and blurring our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-01 Anastasis Kratsios

Clustering is a fundamental machine learning task which has been widely studied in the literature. Classic clustering methods follow the assumption that data are represented as features in a vectorized form through various representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Sheng Zhou , Hongjia Xu , Zhuonan Zheng , Jiawei Chen , Zhao li , Jiajun Bu , Jia Wu , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu , Martin Ester

Pooling is one of the main elements in convolutional neural networks. The pooling reduces the size of the feature map, enabling training and testing with a limited amount of computation. This paper proposes a new pooling method named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Junhyuk Hyun , Hongje Seong , Euntai Kim