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Injectivity is the defining property of a mapping that ensures no information is lost and any input can be perfectly reconstructed from its output. By performing hard thresholding, the ReLU function naturally interferes with this property,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Daniel Haider , Martin Ehler , Peter Balazs

We introduce and analyze a new technique for model reduction for deep neural networks. While large networks are theoretically capable of learning arbitrarily complex models, overfitting and model redundancy negatively affects the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Nam Nguyen , Justin Romberg

The possibility for one to recover the parameters-weights and biases-of a neural network thanks to the knowledge of its function on a subset of the input space can be, depending on the situation, a curse or a blessing. On one hand,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Joachim Bona-Pellissier , François Bachoc , François Malgouyres

We study expressive power of shallow and deep neural networks with piece-wise linear activation functions. We establish new rigorous upper and lower bounds for the network complexity in the setting of approximations in Sobolev spaces. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Dmitry Yarotsky

In this paper, we prove that a shallow neural network with a monotone sigmoid, ReLU, ELU, Softplus, or LeakyReLU activation function can arbitrarily well approximate any L^p(p>=2) integrable functions defined on R*[0,1]^n. We also prove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ming-Xi Wang , Yang Qu

In the era of Deep Neural Network based solutions for a variety of real-life tasks, having a compact and energy-efficient deployable model has become fairly important. Most of the existing deep architectures use Rectifier Linear Unit (ReLU)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Nancy Nayak , Sheetal Kalyani

In this paper, we explore some basic questions on the complexity of training neural networks with ReLU activation function. We show that it is NP-hard to train a two-hidden layer feedforward ReLU neural network. If dimension of the input…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Digvijay Boob , Santanu S. Dey , Guanghui Lan

This work studies the expressivity of ReLU neural networks with a focus on their depth. A sequence of previous works showed that $\lceil \log_2(n+1) \rceil$ hidden layers are sufficient to compute all continuous piecewise linear (CPWL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Egor Bakaev , Florestan Brunck , Christoph Hertrich , Jack Stade , Amir Yehudayoff

This paper explores the expressive power of deep neural networks for a diverse range of activation functions. An activation function set $\mathscr{A}$ is defined to encompass the majority of commonly used activation functions, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Shijun Zhang , Jianfeng Lu , Hongkai Zhao

In this paper we approach the problem of unique and stable identifiability of generic deep artificial neural networks with pyramidal shape and smooth activation functions from a finite number of input-output samples. More specifically we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Christian Fiedler , Massimo Fornasier , Timo Klock , Michael Rauchensteiner

The topology of many real complex networks has been conjectured to be embedded in hidden metric spaces, where distances between nodes encode their likelihood of being connected. Besides of providing a natural geometrical interpretation of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-23 Antoine Allard , M. Ángeles Serrano , Guillermo García-Pérez , Marián Boguñá

The expressive power of neural networks is important for understanding deep learning. Most existing works consider this problem from the view of the depth of a network. In this paper, we study how width affects the expressiveness of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Zhou Lu , Hongming Pu , Feicheng Wang , Zhiqiang Hu , Liwei Wang

We study the problem of inverting a deep generative model with ReLU activations. Inversion corresponds to finding a latent code vector that explains observed measurements as much as possible. In most prior works this is performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Qi Lei , Ajil Jalal , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Alexandros G. Dimakis

An interesting approach to analyzing neural networks that has received renewed attention is to examine the equivalent kernel of the neural network. This is based on the fact that a fully connected feedforward network with one hidden layer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Russell Tsuchida , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Marcus Gallagher

We establish, for the first time, connections between feedforward neural networks with ReLU activation and tropical geometry --- we show that the family of such neural networks is equivalent to the family of tropical rational maps. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Liwen Zhang , Gregory Naitzat , Lek-Heng Lim

We develop a framework for analyzing parameter symmetries in deep ReLU networks and obtain a complete characterization of the generic parameter fibers for three-layer bottleneck architectures. Our approach provides explicit semi-algebraic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Johanna Marie Gegenfurtner , Moritz Grillo , Guido Montúfar

Deep neural networks have attained remarkable success across diverse classification tasks. Recent empirical studies have shown that deep networks learn features that are linearly separable across classes. However, these findings often lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Alec S. Xu , Can Yaras , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

The deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in learning complex patterns with strong predictive power, but they are often thought of as "black box" models without a sufficient level of transparency and interpretability. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Agus Sudjianto , William Knauth , Rahul Singh , Zebin Yang , Aijun Zhang

The parameter space for any fixed architecture of feedforward ReLU neural networks serves as a proxy during training for the associated class of functions - but how faithful is this representation? It is known that many different parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 J. Elisenda Grigsby , Kathryn Lindsey , David Rolnick

In this work, beyond width and depth, we augment a neural network with a new dimension called height by intra-linking neurons in the same layer to create an intra-layer hierarchy, which gives rise to the notion of height. We call a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Feng-Lei Fan , Ze-Yu Li , Huan Xiong , Tieyong Zeng