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Deep neural networks have a good success record and are thus viewed as the best architecture choice for complex applications. Their main shortcoming has been, for a long time, the vanishing gradient which prevented the numerical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Bernhard Bermeitinger , Tomas Hrycej , Siegfried Handschuh

Deep learning is widely used in tasks including image recognition and generation, in learning dynamical systems from data and many more. It is important to construct learning architectures with theoretical guarantees to permit safety in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Sofya Maslovskaya , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

Deep learning has emerged as a powerful framework for analyzing biomolecular dynamics trajectories, enabling efficient representations that capture essential system dynamics and facilitate mechanistic studies. We propose a neural network…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Guanghong Zuo

Random features is a powerful universal function approximator that inherits the theoretical rigor of kernel methods and can scale up to modern learning tasks. This paper views uncertain system models as unknown or uncertain smooth functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Diego Agudelo-España , Yassine Nemmour , Bernhard Schölkopf , Jia-Jie Zhu

Depth separation results propose a possible theoretical explanation for the benefits of deep neural networks over shallower architectures, establishing that the former possess superior approximation capabilities. However, there are no known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Itay Safran , Jason D. Lee

While the universal approximation property holds both for hierarchical and shallow networks, we prove that deep (hierarchical) networks can approximate the class of compositional functions with the same accuracy as shallow networks but with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Hrushikesh Mhaskar , Qianli Liao , Tomaso Poggio

Over the past decade, deep learning has proven to be a highly effective tool for learning meaningful features from raw data. However, it remains an open question how deep networks perform hierarchical feature learning across layers. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Peng Wang , Xiao Li , Can Yaras , Zhihui Zhu , Laura Balzano , Wei Hu , Qing Qu

Understanding the reasons for the success of deep neural networks trained using stochastic gradient-based methods is a key open problem for the nascent theory of deep learning. The types of data where these networks are most successful,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-04 Sebastian Goldt , Marc Mézard , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Despite their widespread success, the application of deep neural networks to functional data remains scarce today. The infinite dimensionality of functional data means standard learning algorithms can be applied only after appropriate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-22 Junwen Yao , Jonas Mueller , Jane-Ling Wang

Attention mechanisms have become a standard tool for sequence modeling tasks, in particular by stacking self-attention layers over the entire input sequence as in the Transformer architecture. In this work we introduce a novel attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Da Ju , Stephen Roller , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Jason Weston

We show that the standard stochastic gradient decent (SGD) algorithm is guaranteed to learn, in polynomial time, a function that is competitive with the best function in the conjugate kernel space of the network, as defined in Daniely,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Amit Daniely

Many theories of deep learning have shown that a deep network can require dramatically fewer resources to represent a given function compared to a shallow network. But a question remains: can these efficient representations be learned using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Maxwell Nye , Andrew Saxe

$\partial\mathbb{B}$ nets are differentiable neural networks that learn discrete boolean-valued functions by gradient descent. $\partial\mathbb{B}$ nets have two semantically equivalent aspects: a differentiable soft-net, with real weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Ian Wright

Deep learning has arguably achieved tremendous success in recent years. In simple words, deep learning uses the composition of many nonlinear functions to model the complex dependency between input features and labels. While neural networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-16 Jianqing Fan , Cong Ma , Yiqiao Zhong

Deep feedforward and recurrent networks have achieved impressive results in many perception and language processing applications. This success is partially attributed to architectural innovations such as convolutional and long short-term…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Arvind Neelakantan , Luke Vilnis , Quoc V. Le , Ilya Sutskever , Lukasz Kaiser , Karol Kurach , James Martens

Very deep convolutional networks with hundreds of layers have led to significant reductions in error on competitive benchmarks. Although the unmatched expressiveness of the many layers can be highly desirable at test time, training very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Gao Huang , Yu Sun , Zhuang Liu , Daniel Sedra , Kilian Weinberger

The move from hand-designed features to learned features in machine learning has been wildly successful. In spite of this, optimization algorithms are still designed by hand. In this paper we show how the design of an optimization algorithm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Marcin Andrychowicz , Misha Denil , Sergio Gomez , Matthew W. Hoffman , David Pfau , Tom Schaul , Brendan Shillingford , Nando de Freitas

In the context of classification problems, Deep Learning (DL) approaches represent state of art. Many DL approaches are based on variations of standard multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. These are also referred to as deep networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

This paper aims at bringing some light and understanding to the field of deep learning for dynamic point cloud processing. Specifically, we focus on the hierarchical features learning aspect, with the ultimate goal of understanding which…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Pedro Gomes , Silvia Rossi , Laura Toni

A key factor in the success of deep neural networks is the ability to scale models to improve performance by varying the architecture depth and width. This simple property of neural network design has resulted in highly effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Thao Nguyen , Maithra Raghu , Simon Kornblith