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Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded domain. We consider the problem of how efficiently shallow neural networks with the ReLU$^k$ activation function can approximate functions from Sobolev spaces $W^s(L_p(\Omega))$ with error…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-17 Tong Mao , Jonathan W. Siegel , Jinchao Xu

The purpose of the present paper is to study the computation complexity of deep ReLU neural networks to approximate functions in H\"older-Nikol'skii spaces of mixed smoothness $H_\infty^\alpha(\mathbb{I}^d)$ on the unit cube…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Dinh Dũng , Van Kien Nguyen , Mai Xuan Thao

Equivariant neural networks provide a principled framework for incorporating symmetry into learning architectures and have been extensively analyzed through the lens of their separation power, that is, the ability to distinguish inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Marco Pacini , Gabriele Santin , Bruno Lepri , Shubhendu Trivedi

We analyze the universal approximation constraints of narrow Residual Neural Networks (ResNets) both theoretically and numerically. For deep neural networks without input space augmentation, a central constraint is the inability to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Christian Kuehn , Sara-Viola Kuntz , Tobias Wöhrer

On the one hand, the framework of mixed norm spaces has potential applications in different areas of mathematics. On the other hand, neural network (NN) operators are well established as approximators, attracting significant attention in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Priyanka Majethiya , Shivam Bajpeyi

Generalization and approximation capabilities of message passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) are often studied by defining a compact metric on a space of input graphs under which MPNNs are H\"older continuous. Such analyses are of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ofek Amran , Tom Gilat , Ron Levie

In this paper we present a class of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) called non-overlapping CNNs in the study of approximation capabilities of CNNs. We prove that such networks with sigmoidal activation function are capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Weike Chang

We show that $d$-variate polynomials of degree $R$ can be represented on $[0,1]^d$ as shallow neural networks of width $2(R+d)^d$. Also, by SNN representation of localized Taylor polynomials of univariate $C^\beta$-smooth functions, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-07 Aleksandr Beknazaryan

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

In this work, we consider ill-posed inverse problems in which the forward operator is continuous and weakly closed, and the sought solution belongs to a weakly closed constraint set. We propose a regularization method based on minimizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Barbara Palumbo , Paolo Massa , Federico Benvenuto

A recently proposed method in deep learning groups multiple neurons to capsules such that each capsule represents an object or part of an object. Routing algorithms route the output of capsules from lower-level layers to upper-level layers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 David Peer , Sebastian Stabinger , Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez

Tight estimation of the Lipschitz constant for deep neural networks (DNNs) is useful in many applications ranging from robustness certification of classifiers to stability analysis of closed-loop systems with reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mahyar Fazlyab , Alexander Robey , Hamed Hassani , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

The present article deals with the local approximation results by means of Lipschitz maximal function, Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness and Lipschitz type space having two parameters for the summation-integral type operators defined by…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Rishikesh Yadav , Ramakanta Meher , Vishnu Narayan Mishra

We derive fundamental lower bounds on the connectivity and the memory requirements of deep neural networks guaranteeing uniform approximation rates for arbitrary function classes in $L^2(\mathbb R^d)$. In other words, we establish a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Helmut Bölcskei , Philipp Grohs , Gitta Kutyniok , Philipp Petersen

A recent line of work has shown that an overparametrized neural network can perfectly fit the training data, an otherwise often intractable nonconvex optimization problem. For (fully-connected) shallow networks, in the best case scenario,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Armin Eftekhari , ChaeHwan Song , Volkan Cevher

In general, approximating classes of functions defined over high-dimensional input spaces by linear combinations of a fixed set of basis functions or ``features'' is known to be hard. Typically, the worst-case error of the best basis set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jonathan Baxter , Peter Bartlett

Even in times of deep learning, low-rank approximations by factorizing a matrix into user and item latent factors continue to be a method of choice for collaborative filtering tasks due to their great performance. While deep learning based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Marcel Kurovski , Florian Wilhelm

For a simple model of shallow and wide neural networks, we show that the epigraph of its input-output map as a function of the network parameters approximates epigraph of a. convex function in a precise sense. This leads to a plausible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-05 Vivek Borkar , Parthe Pandit

For certain infinitely-wide neural networks, the neural tangent kernel (NTK) theory fully characterizes generalization, but for the networks used in practice, the empirical NTK only provides a rough first-order approximation. Still, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pascal Frossard

A long standing open problem in the theory of neural networks is the development of quantitative methods to estimate and compare the capabilities of different architectures. Here we define the capacity of an architecture by the binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Pierre Baldi , Roman Vershynin
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