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We investigate the expressive power of depth-2 bandlimited random neural networks. A random net is a neural network where the hidden layer parameters are frozen with random assignment, and only the output layer parameters are trained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ming Li , Sho Sonoda , Feilong Cao , Yu Guang Wang , Jiye Liang

It has been recently observed in much of the literature that neural networks exhibit a bottleneck rank property: for larger depths, the activation and weights of neural networks trained with gradient-based methods tend to be of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Antoine Ledent , Rodrigo Alves , Yunwen Lei

We consider deep neural networks with a Lipschitz continuous activation function and with weight matrices of variable widths. We establish a uniform convergence analysis framework in which sufficient conditions on weight matrices and bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yuesheng Xu , Haizhang Zhang

We consider the problem of finding a two-layer neural network with sigmoid, rectified linear unit (ReLU), or binary step activation functions that "fits" a training data set as accurately as possible as quantified by the training error; and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-06 David Gamarnik , Eren C. Kızıldağ , Ilias Zadik

Controlling the spectral norm of the Jacobian matrix, which is related to the convolution operation, has been shown to improve generalization, training stability and robustness in CNNs. Existing methods for computing the norm either tend to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ekaterina Grishina , Mikhail Gorbunov , Maxim Rakhuba

This paper presents a margin-based multiclass generalization bound for neural networks that scales with their margin-normalized "spectral complexity": their Lipschitz constant, meaning the product of the spectral norms of the weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Peter Bartlett , Dylan J. Foster , Matus Telgarsky

Intuitively, one would expect accuracy of a trained neural network's prediction on test samples to correlate with how densely the samples are surrounded by seen training samples in representation space. We find that a bound on empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Xu Ji , Razvan Pascanu , Devon Hjelm , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Andrea Vedaldi

Neural networks have attracted a lot of attention due to its success in applications such as natural language processing and computer vision. For large scale data, due to the tremendous number of parameters in neural networks, overfitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-05 Xiaoxi Shen , Jinghang Lin

We study depth separation in infinite-width neural networks, where complexity is controlled by the overall squared $\ell_2$-norm of the weights (sum of squares of all weights in the network). Whereas previous depth separation results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Suzanna Parkinson , Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett , Ohad Shamir , Nathan Srebro

We study model recovery for data classification, where the training labels are generated from a one-hidden-layer neural network with sigmoid activations, also known as a single-layer feedforward network, and the goal is to recover the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-07 Haoyu Fu , Yuejie Chi , Yingbin Liang

We derive upper bounds on the complexity of ReLU neural networks approximating the solution of a linear system given the matrix and the right-hand side. We focus on matrices which are symmetric positive definite and sparse, as they appear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Benjamin Dörich , Roland Maier , Lukas Ullmer

Recent control trends are increasingly relying on communication networks and wireless channels to close the loop for Internet-of-Things applications. Traditionally these approaches are model-based, i.e., assuming a network or channel model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Konstantinos Gatsis , George J. Pappas

Although deep learning has shown its powerful performance in many applications, the mathematical principles behind neural networks are still mysterious. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning a one-hidden-layer neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi

We provide an upper bound on the number of neurons required in a shallow neural network to approximate a continuous function on a compact set with a given accuracy. This method, inspired by a specific proof of the Stone-Weierstrass theorem,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-09 Frantisek Hakl , Vit Fojtik

Recently, a spate of papers have provided positive theoretical results for training over-parameterized neural networks (where the network size is larger than what is needed to achieve low error). The key insight is that with sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Gilad Yehudai , Ohad Shamir

Previous work has cast doubt on the general framework of uniform convergence and its ability to explain generalization in neural networks. By considering a specific dataset, it was observed that a neural network completely misclassifies a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Gregor Bachmann , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Thomas Hofmann

In this paper we consider the limiting case of neural networks (NNs) architectures when the number of neurons in each hidden layer and the number of hidden layers tend to infinity thus forming a continuum, and we derive approximation errors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Christophe Prieur , Mircea Lazar , Bogdan Robu

In recent years, network embedding methods have garnered increasing attention because of their effectiveness in various information retrieval tasks. The goal is to learn low-dimensional representations of vertexes in an information network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Chih-Ming Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Yian Chen , Ming-Feng Tsai

In many interesting situations the size of epsilon-nets depends only on $\epsilon$ together with different complexity measures. The aim of this paper is to give a systematic treatment of such complexity measures arising in Discrete and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Andrey Kupavskii , Nikita Zhivotovskiy

Various Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful in analyzing data in non-Euclidean spaces, however, they have limitations such as oversmoothing, i.e., information becomes excessively averaged as the number of hidden layers…

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