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We present an information-theoretic framework to learn fixed-dimensional embeddings for tasks in reinforcement learning. We leverage the idea that two tasks are similar if observing an agent's performance on one task reduces our uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mridul Mahajan , Georgios Tzannetos , Goran Radanovic , Adish Singla

Based on the tree architecture, the objective of this paper is to design deep neural networks with two or more hidden layers (called deep nets) for realization of radial functions so as to enable rotational invariance for near-optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Charles K. Chui , Shao-Bo Lin , Ding-Xuan Zhou

We provide several new depth-based separation results for feed-forward neural networks, proving that various types of simple and natural functions can be better approximated using deeper networks than shallower ones, even if the shallower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Itay Safran , Ohad Shamir

In this paper, we prove the rate of approximation for the Neural Network Sampling Operators activated by sigmoidal functions with mixed Lebesgue norm in terms of averaged modulus of smoothness for a bounded measurable functions on bounded…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Arpan Kumar Dey , A. Sathish Kumar , P. Devaraj

A key element of understanding the efficacy of overparameterized neural networks is characterizing how they represent functions as the number of weights in the network approaches infinity. In this paper, we characterize the norm required to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett , Daniel Soudry , Nathan Srebro

Deep learning has exhibited superior performance for various tasks, especially for high-dimensional datasets, such as images. To understand this property, we investigate the approximation and estimation ability of deep learning on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-01 Taiji Suzuki , Atsushi Nitanda

We consider the problem of approximating a given element $f$ from a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ by means of greedy algorithms and the application of such procedures to the regression problem in statistical learning theory. We improve on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Andrew R. Barron , Albert Cohen , Wolfgang Dahmen , Ronald A. DeVore

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

In the present paper we study embedding operators for weighted Sobolev spaces whose weights satisfy the well-known Muckenhoupt A_p-condition. Sufficient conditions for boundedness and compactness of the embedding operators are obtained for…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-09-04 V. Gol'dshtein , A. Ukhlov

Universal approximation theorem suggests that a shallow neural network can approximate any function. The input to neurons at each layer is a weighted sum of previous layer neurons and then an activation is applied. These activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Bhaavan Goel

Motivated by the abundance of functional data such as time series and images, there has been a growing interest in integrating such data into neural networks and learning maps from function spaces to R (i.e., functionals). In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-20 Tian-Yi Zhou , Namjoon Suh , Guang Cheng , Xiaoming Huo

Deep learning models for human activity recognition (HAR) based on sensor data have been heavily studied recently. However, the generalization ability of deep models on complex real-world HAR data is limited by the availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Chenglin Li , Carrie Lu Tong , Di Niu , Bei Jiang , Xiao Zuo , Lei Cheng , Jian Xiong , Jianming Yang

We consider the imbedding inequality || f ||_{L^r(R^d)} <= S_{r,n,d} || f ||_{H^{n}(R^d)}; H^{n}(R^d) is the Sobolev space (or Bessel potential space) of L^2 type and (integer or fractional) order n. We write down upper bounds for the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Morosi , L. Pizzocchero

This paper establishes the (nearly) optimal approximation error characterization of deep rectified linear unit (ReLU) networks for smooth functions in terms of both width and depth simultaneously. To that end, we first prove that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Jianfeng Lu , Zuowei Shen , Haizhao Yang , Shijun Zhang

On a general open set of the euclidean space, we study the relation between the embedding of the homogeneous Sobolev space $\mathcal{D}^{1,p}_0$ into $L^q$ and the summability properties of the distance function. We prove that in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Lorenzo Brasco , Francesca Prinari , Anna Chiara Zagati

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

We introduce intrinsic Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces for a class of ultra-parabolic Kolmogorov type operators satisfying the weak H\"ormander condition. We prove continuous embeddings into Lorentz and intrinsic H\"older spaces. We also prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Andrea Pascucci , Antonello Pesce

While deep learning is successful in a number of applications, it is not yet well understood theoretically. A satisfactory theoretical characterization of deep learning however, is beginning to emerge. It covers the following questions: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tomaso Poggio , Andrzej Banburski , Qianli Liao

In this article, we study approximation properties of the variation spaces corresponding to shallow neural networks with a variety of activation functions. We introduce two main tools for estimating the metric entropy, approximation rates,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-26 Jonathan W. Siegel , Jinchao Xu

The article deals with a simplified proof of the Sobolev embedding theorem for Lizorkin--Triebel spaces (that contain the $L_p$-Sobolev spaces $H^s_p$ as special cases). The method extends to a proof of the corresponding fact for general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Jon Johnsen , Winfried Sickel