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We develop a variational framework to understand the properties of functions learned by fitting deep neural networks with rectified linear unit activations to data. We propose a new function space, which is reminiscent of classical bounded…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-18 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

A wide variety of activation functions have been proposed for neural networks. The Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) is especially popular today. There are many practical reasons that motivate the use of the ReLU. This paper provides new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

Characterizing the function spaces defined by neural networks helps understanding the corresponding learning models and their inductive bias. While in some limits neural networks correspond to function spaces that are Hilbert spaces, these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-22 Francesca Bartolucci , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco , Stefano Vigogna

This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework for the analysis of vector-valued neural networks through the development of vector-valued variation spaces, a new class of reproducing kernel Banach spaces. These spaces emerge from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-21 Joseph Shenouda , Rahul Parhi , Kangwook Lee , Robert D. Nowak

Characterizing the function spaces corresponding to neural networks can provide a way to understand their properties. In this paper we discuss how the theory of reproducing kernel Banach spaces can be used to tackle this challenge. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-27 Francesca Bartolucci , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco , Stefano Vigogna

We develop Banach spaces for ReLU neural networks of finite depth $L$ and infinite width. The spaces contain all finite fully connected $L$-layer networks and their $L^2$-limiting objects under bounds on the natural path-norm. Under this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-31 Weinan E , Stephan Wojtowytsch

We study two-layer neural networks whose domain and range are Banach spaces with separable preduals. In addition, we assume that the image space is equipped with a partial order, i.e. it is a Riesz space. As the nonlinearity we choose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yury Korolev

This article delves into the study of the theory of regularized learning in Banach spaces for linear-functional data. It encompasses discussions on representer theorems, pseudo-approximation theorems, and convergence theorems. Regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qi Ye

Learning methods in Banach spaces are often formulated as regularization problems which minimize the sum of a data fidelity term in a Banach norm and a regularization term in another Banach norm. Due to the infinite dimensional nature of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Raymond Cheng , Rui Wang , Yuesheng Xu

The effectiveness of deep neural architectures has been widely supported in terms of both experimental and foundational principles. There is also clear evidence that the activation function (e.g. the rectifier and the LSTM units) plays a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Giuseppe Marra , Dario Zanca , Alessandro Betti , Marco Gori

Machine learning tasks are generally formulated as optimization problems, where one searches for an optimal function within a certain functional space. In practice, parameterized functional spaces are considered, in order to be able to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Manon Verbockhaven , Sylvain Chevallier , Guillaume Charpiat , Théo Rudkiewicz

We modify the very well known theory of normed spaces $(E, \norm)$ within functional analysis by considering a sequence $(\norm_n : n\in\N)$ of norms, where $\norm_n$ is defined on the product space $E^n$ for each $n\in\N$. Our theory is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-20 H. G. Dales , M. E. Polyakov

We characterize the solution of a broad class of convex optimization problems that address the reconstruction of a function from a finite number of linear measurements. The underlying hypothesis is that the solution is decomposable as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Michael Unser , Shayan Aziznejad

We study the expressivity of deep neural networks. Measuring a network's complexity by its number of connections or by its number of neurons, we consider the class of functions for which the error of best approximation with networks of a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Rémi Gribonval , Gitta Kutyniok , Morten Nielsen , Felix Voigtlaender

This paper proposes a unified framework for the investigation of constrained learning theory in reflexive Banach spaces of features via regularized empirical risk minimization. The focus is placed on Tikhonov-like regularization with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Patrick L. Combettes , Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces provide a foundational framework for kernel-based learning, where regularization and interpolation problems admit finite-dimensional solutions through classical representer theorems. Many modern learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Isabel de la Higuera , Francisco Herrera , M. Victoria Velasco

Operator learning problems arise in many key areas of scientific computing where Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are used to model physical systems. In such scenarios, the operators map between Banach or Hilbert spaces. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ben Adcock , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

Lipschitz-constrained neural networks have several advantages over unconstrained ones and can be applied to a variety of problems, making them a topic of attention in the deep learning community. Unfortunately, it has been shown both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Stanislas Ducotterd , Alexis Goujon , Pakshal Bohra , Dimitris Perdios , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

We develop a variational framework to understand the properties of the functions learned by neural networks fit to data. We propose and study a family of continuous-domain linear inverse problems with total variation-like regularization in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-15 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

We revisit the mean field parametrization of shallow neural networks, using signed measures on unbounded parameter spaces and duality pairings that take into account the regularity and growth of activation functions. This setting directly…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Francesca Bartolucci , Marcello Carioni , José A. Iglesias , Yury Korolev , Emanuele Naldi , Stefano Vigogna
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