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Recognizing symmetries in data allows for significant boosts in neural network training, which is especially important where training data are limited. In many cases, however, the exact underlying symmetry is present only in an idealized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-07 Seth Nabat , Aishik Ghosh , Edmund Witkowski , Gregor Kasieczka , Daniel Whiteson

We study the problem of learning hierarchical polynomials over the standard Gaussian distribution with three-layer neural networks. We specifically consider target functions of the form $h = g \circ p$ where $p : \mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zihao Wang , Eshaan Nichani , Jason D. Lee

We propose a randomized neural network approach called RaNNDy for learning transfer operators and their spectral decompositions from data. The weights of the hidden layers of the neural network are randomly selected and only the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mohammad Tabish , Benedict Leimkuhler , Stefan Klus

Multilayer networks have seen a resurgence under the umbrella of deep learning. Current deep learning algorithms train the layers of the network sequentially, improving algorithmic performance as well as providing some regularization. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Ke Wu , Malik Magdon-Ismail

We study the problem of PAC learning $\gamma$-margin halfspaces in the presence of Massart noise. Without computational considerations, the sample complexity of this learning problem is known to be $\widetilde{\Theta}(1/(\gamma^2…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Ilias Diakonikolas , Nikos Zarifis

The seminal work of Linial, Mansour, and Nisan gave a quasipolynomial-time algorithm for learning constant-depth circuits ($\mathsf{AC}^0$) with respect to the uniform distribution on the hypercube. Extending their algorithm to the setting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

A key challenge in scientific machine learning is solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex domains, where the curved geometry complicates the approximation of functions and their derivatives required by differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Hanfei Zhou , Lei Shi

Training a neural network requires choosing a suitable learning rate, which involves a trade-off between speed and effectiveness of convergence. While there has been considerable theoretical and empirical analysis of how large the learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-29 Gaurav Iyer , Boris Hanin , David Rolnick

We investigate the complexity of training a two-layer ReLU neural network with weight decay regularization. Previous research has shown that the optimal solution of this problem can be found by solving a standard cone-constrained convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

In this paper we propose a Bayesian method for estimating architectural parameters of neural networks, namely layer size and network depth. We do this by learning concrete distributions over these parameters. Our results show that regular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-29 Georgi Dikov , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer

A new network with super approximation power is introduced. This network is built with Floor ($\lfloor x\rfloor$) or ReLU ($\max\{0,x\}$) activation function in each neuron and hence we call such networks Floor-ReLU networks. For any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zuowei Shen , Haizhao Yang , Shijun Zhang

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

We propose statistically robust and computationally efficient linear learning methods in the high-dimensional batch setting, where the number of features $d$ may exceed the sample size $n$. We employ, in a generic learning setting, two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-30 Ibrahim Merad , Stéphane Gaïffas

Fully connected multilayer perceptrons are used for obtaining numerical solutions of partial differential equations in various dimensions. Independent variables are fed into the input layer, and the output is considered as solution's value.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-28 V. I. Avrutskiy

We present SiLU network constructions whose approximation efficiency depends critically on proper hyperparameter tuning. For the square function $x^2$, with optimally chosen shift $a$ and scale $\beta$, we achieve approximation error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Koffi O. Ayena

In deep learning, mini-batch training is commonly used to optimize network parameters. However, the traditional mini-batch method may not learn the under-represented samples and complex patterns in the data, leading to a longer time for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Subin Sahayam , John Zakkam , Umarani Jayaraman

This work proposes an autoencoder neural network as a non-linear generalization of projection-based methods for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The proposed deep learning architecture presented is capable of generating the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 Jaime Lopez Garcia , Angel Rivero Jimenez

We propose a novel regularization algorithm to train deep neural networks, in which data at training time is severely biased. Since a neural network efficiently learns data distribution, a network is likely to learn the bias information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Byungju Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Kyungsu Kim , Sungjin Kim , Junmo Kim

We study the learnability of linear separators in $\Re^d$ in the presence of bounded (a.k.a Massart) noise. This is a realistic generalization of the random classification noise model, where the adversary can flip each example $x$ with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Pranjal Awasthi , Maria-Florina Balcan , Nika Haghtalab , Ruth Urner

For any ReLU network there is a representation in which the sum of the absolute values of the weights into each node is exactly $1$, and the input layer variables are multiplied by a value $V$ coinciding with the total variation of the path…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-08 Andrew R. Barron , Jason M. Klusowski