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We study the robust interpolation problem of arbitrary data distributions supported on a bounded space and propose a two-fold law of robustness. Robust interpolation refers to the problem of interpolating $n$ noisy training data points in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Yihan Wu , Heng Huang , Hongyang Zhang

A well-known line of work (Barron, 1993; Breiman, 1993; Klusowski & Barron, 2018) provides bounds on the width $n$ of a ReLU two-layer neural network needed to approximate a function $f$ over the ball $\mathcal{B}_R(\mathbb{R}^d)$ up to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-29 Carles Domingo-Enrich , Youssef Mroueh

It has been widely assumed that a neural network cannot be recovered from its outputs, as the network depends on its parameters in a highly nonlinear way. Here, we prove that in fact it is often possible to identify the architecture,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 David Rolnick , Konrad P. Kording

This article is concerned with the approximation and expressive powers of deep neural networks. This is an active research area currently producing many interesting papers. The results most commonly found in the literature prove that neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 I. Daubechies , R. DeVore , S. Foucart , B. Hanin , G. Petrova

It is well known that modern deep neural networks are powerful enough to memorize datasets even when the labels have been randomized. Recently, Vershynin (2020) settled a long standing question by Baum (1988), proving that \emph{deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shashank Rajput , Kartik Sreenivasan , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Amin Karbasi

Training a deep neural network to maximize a target objective has become the standard recipe for successful machine learning over the last decade. These networks can be optimized with supervised learning, if the target objective is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Bernhard Jaeger , Andreas Geiger

We prove exponential expressivity with stable ReLU Neural Networks (ReLU NNs) in $H^1(\Omega)$ for weighted analytic function classes in certain polytopal domains $\Omega$, in space dimension $d=2,3$. Functions in these classes are locally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Carlo Marcati , Joost A. A. Opschoor , Philipp C. Petersen , Christoph Schwab

This theoretical paper is devoted to developing a rigorous theory for demystifying the global convergence phenomenon in a challenging scenario: learning over-parameterized Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) nets for very high dimensional dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Peng He

Nonlinear parametric inverse problems appear in many applications and are typically very expensive to solve, especially if they involve many measurements. These problems pose huge computational challenges as evaluating the objective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Drayton Munster , Eric de Sturler

For neural networks (NNs) with rectified linear unit (ReLU) or binary activation functions, we show that their training can be accomplished in a reduced parameter space. Specifically, the weights in each neuron can be trained on the unit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-30 Tong Qin , Ling Zhou , Dongbin Xiu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool with a growing body of literature exploring Lyapunov-based approaches for real-time system identification and control. These methods depend on establishing bounds for the second…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Omkar Sudhir Patil , Brandon C. Fallin , Cristian F. Nino , Rebecca G. Hart , Warren E. Dixon

We prove that the set of functions representable by ReLU neural networks with integer weights strictly increases with the network depth while allowing arbitrary width. More precisely, we show that $\lceil\log_2(n)\rceil$ hidden layers are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Christian Haase , Christoph Hertrich , Georg Loho

We study finite-element and deep feedforward neural network (DNN for short) expressivity rate bounds for solution sets of a model linear, second order singularly perturbed, elliptic two-point boundary value problem, in Sobolev norms on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 F. Rohner , Ch. Schwab , C. Xenophontos

We prove new upper and lower bounds on the VC-dimension of deep neural networks with the ReLU activation function. These bounds are tight for almost the entire range of parameters. Letting $W$ be the number of weights and $L$ be the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Peter L. Bartlett , Nick Harvey , Chris Liaw , Abbas Mehrabian

We study the properties of nonparametric least squares regression using deep neural networks. We derive non-asymptotic upper bounds for the prediction error of the empirical risk minimizer of feedforward deep neural regression. Our error…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Yuling Jiao , Guohao Shen , Yuanyuan Lin , Jian Huang

We prove several hardness results for training depth-2 neural networks with the ReLU activation function; these networks are simply weighted sums (that may include negative coefficients) of ReLUs. Our goal is to output a depth-2 neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Surbhi Goel , Adam Klivans , Pasin Manurangsi , Daniel Reichman

In this paper, we focus on fully connected deep neural networks utilizing the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) activation function for nonparametric estimation. We derive non-asymptotic bounds that lead to convergence rates, addressing both…

The minimal number of neurons required for a feedforward neural network to interpolate $n$ generic input-output pairs from $\mathbb{R}^d\times \mathbb{R}^{d'}$ is $\Theta(\sqrt{nd'})$. While previous results have shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Liam Madden

Two networks are equivalent if they produce the same output for any given input. In this paper, we study the possibility of transforming a deep neural network to another network with a different number of units or layers, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Abhinav Kumar , Thiago Serra , Srikumar Ramalingam

Analytical phase demodulation algorithms in optical interferometry typically fail to reach the theoretical sensitivity limit set by the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB). We show that deep neural networks (DNNs) can perform efficient phase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Jacob Black , Shichao Chen , Joseph G. Thomas , Yizheng Zhu