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The inductive bias of a graph neural network (GNN) is largely encoded in its specified graph. Latent graph inference relies on latent geometric representations to dynamically rewire or infer a GNN's graph to maximize the GNN's predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Anastasis Kratsios

In this paper, a universal approximation theorem (UAT) for shallow neural networks whose inputs belong to a topological vector space (TVS) and whose outputs take values in a Hausdorff locally convex TVS is established. The networks are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Sachin Saini

This work aims to help resolve the two main stumbling blocks in the application of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), that is, the exceedingly large number of trainable parameters and their physical interpretability. This is achieved through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Giuseppe G. Calvi , Ahmad Moniri , Mahmoud Mahfouz , Qibin Zhao , Danilo P. Mandic

We generalize the classical universal approximation theorem for neural networks to the case of complex-valued neural networks. Precisely, we consider feedforward networks with a complex activation function $\sigma : \mathbb{C} \to…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Felix Voigtlaender

This paper establishes rates of universal approximation for the shallow neural tangent kernel (NTK): network weights are only allowed microscopic changes from random initialization, which entails that activations are mostly unchanged, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ziwei Ji , Matus Telgarsky , Ruicheng Xian

We establish connections between the problem of learning a two-layer neural network and tensor decomposition. We consider a model with feature vectors $\boldsymbol x \in \mathbb R^d$, $r$ hidden units with weights $\{\boldsymbol w_i\}_{1\le…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Marco Mondelli , Andrea Montanari

Training neural networks is a challenging non-convex optimization problem, and backpropagation or gradient descent can get stuck in spurious local optima. We propose a novel algorithm based on tensor decomposition for guaranteed training of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Majid Janzamin , Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and transformers have been shown to be Turing-complete, but this result assumes infinite precision in their hidden representations, positional encodings for transformers, and unbounded computation time in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ankur Mali , Alexander Ororbia , Daniel Kifer , Lee Giles

The empirical emergence of neural collapse -- a surprising symmetry in the feature representations of the training data in the penultimate layer of deep neural networks -- has spurred a line of theoretical research aimed at its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Peter Súkeník , Christoph H. Lampert , Marco Mondelli

Large-scale deep neural networks consume expensive training costs, but the training results in less-interpretable weight matrices constructing the networks. Here, we propose a mode decomposition learning that can interpret the weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chan Li , Haiping Huang

Convolutional neural networks (CNN's) are powerful and widely used tools. However, their interpretability is far from ideal. One such shortcoming is the difficulty of deducing a network's ability to generalize to unseen data. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Rickard Brüel Gabrielsson , Gunnar Carlsson

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

Universal approximation theory offers a foundational framework to verify neural network expressiveness, enabling principled utilization in real-world applications. However, most existing theoretical constructions are established by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 ZeYu Li , ShiJun Zhang , TieYong Zeng , FengLei Fan

We study feedforward neural networks with inputs from a topological space (TFNNs). We prove a universal approximation theorem for shallow TFNNs, which demonstrates their capacity to approximate any continuous function defined on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Vugar Ismailov

The remarkable performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is entangled with their huge number of uninterpretable parameters, which has become the bottleneck limiting the exploitation of their full potential. Towards network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Yuchao Li , Rongrong Ji , Shaohui Lin , Baochang Zhang , Chenqian Yan , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Ling Shao

We present a new framework to measure the intrinsic properties of (deep) neural networks. While we focus on convolutional networks, our framework can be extrapolated to any network architecture. In particular, we evaluate two network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Alberto Badias , Ashis Banerjee

Feedforward neural networks have wide applicability in various disciplines of science due to their universal approximation property. Some authors have shown that single hidden layer feedforward neural networks (SLFNs) with fixed weights…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Namig J. Guliyev , Vugar E. Ismailov

The Universal Approximation Theorem (UAT) guarantees universal function approximation but does not explain how residual models distribute approximation across layers. We reframe residual networks as a layer-wise approximation process that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wei Wang , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) represent a formidable challenge for theorists: according to the commonly accepted probabilistic framework that describes their performance, these architectures should overfit due to the huge number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-03 S. Ariosto , R. Pacelli , F. Ginelli , M. Gherardi , P. Rotondo

Recently machine learning using neural networks (NN) has been developed, and many new methods have been suggested. These methods are optimized for the type of input data and work very effectively, but they cannot be used with any kind of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Taisuke Katayose