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We study the relationship between gradient-based optimization of parametric models (e.g., neural networks) and optimization of linear combinations of random features. Our main result shows that if a parametric model can be learned using…

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We propose a two-sample mean test based on the Bayes factor with non-informative priors, specifically designed for scenarios where the dimension $p$ grows with the sample size $n$ with a linear rate $p/n \to c_1 \in (0, \infty)$. We…

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Neural associative memories are single layer perceptrons with fast synaptic learning typically storing discrete associations between pairs of neural activity patterns. Previous works have analyzed the optimal networks under naive Bayes…

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Bayesian decision theory advocates the Bayes classifier as the optimal approach for minimizing the risk in machine learning problems. Current deep learning algorithms usually solve for the optimal classifier by \emph{implicitly} estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Chaoqun Du , Yulin Wang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Artificial neural networks are functions depending on a finite number of parameters typically encoded as weights and biases. The identification of the parameters of the network from finite samples of input-output pairs is often referred to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Massimo Fornasier , Timo Klock , Marco Mondelli , Michael Rauchensteiner

We study quantum neural networks made by parametric one-qubit gates and fixed two-qubit gates in the limit of infinite width, where the generated function is the expectation value of the sum of single-qubit observables over all the qubits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Filippo Girardi , Giacomo De Palma

This work is concerned with the estimation of multidimensional regression and the asymptotic behaviour of the test involved in selecting models. The main problem with such models is that we need to know the covariance matrix of the noise to…

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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…

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High-dimensional signal recovery of standard linear regression is a key challenge in many engineering fields, such as, communications, compressed sensing, and image processing. The approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm proposed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Qiuyun Zou , Hongwen Yang

In this work we aim to solve the compressed sensing problem for the case of a complex unknown vector by utilizing the Bayesian-optimal structured signal approximate message passing (BOSSAMP) algorithm on the jointly sparse real and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Gabor Hannak , Martin Mayer , Gerald Matz , Norbert Goertz

We study shallow neural networks with monomial activations and output dimension one. The function space for these models can be identified with a set of symmetric tensors with bounded rank. We describe general features of these networks,…

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While learning from synthetic training data has recently gained an increased attention, in real-world robotic applications, there are still performance deficiencies due to the so-called Sim-to-Real gap. In practice, this gap is hard to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jianxiang Feng , Jongseok Lee , Maximilian Durner , Rudolph Triebel

We consider nonparametric Bayesian estimation inference using a rescaled smooth Gaussian field as a prior for a multidimensional function. The rescaling is achieved using a Gamma variable and the procedure can be viewed as choosing an…

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Threshold activation functions are highly preferable in neural networks due to their efficiency in hardware implementations. Moreover, their mode of operation is more interpretable and resembles that of biological neurons. However,…

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Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have received an increased interest in the last years. In BNNs, a complete posterior distribution of the unknown weight and bias parameters of the network is produced during the training stage. This…

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Bandit problems with linear or concave reward have been extensively studied, but relatively few works have studied bandits with non-concave reward. This work considers a large family of bandit problems where the unknown underlying reward…

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Estimation of a vector from quantized linear measurements is a common problem for which simple linear techniques are suboptimal -- sometimes greatly so. This paper develops generalized approximate message passing (GAMP) algorithms for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Ulugbek Kamilov , Vivek K. Goyal , Sundeep Rangan

This paper proposes Bayes-optimal convolutional approximate message-passing (CAMP) for signal recovery in compressed sensing. CAMP uses the same low-complexity matched filter (MF) for interference suppression as approximate message-passing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Keigo Takeuchi

We study the problem of learning Bayesian networks where an $\epsilon$-fraction of the samples are adversarially corrupted. We focus on the fully-observable case where the underlying graph structure is known. In this work, we present the…

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