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Neural networks are a powerful class of functions that can be trained with simple gradient descent to achieve state-of-the-art performance on a variety of applications. Despite their practical success, there is a paucity of results that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Bo Xie , Yingyu Liang , Le Song

Although neural networks (NNs) with ReLU activation functions have found success in a wide range of applications, their adoption in risk-sensitive settings has been limited by the concerns on robustness and interpretability. Previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Shaojie Xu , Joel Vaughan , Jie Chen , Aijun Zhang , Agus Sudjianto

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

Neural network verification aims at providing formal guarantees on the output of trained neural networks, to ensure their robustness against adversarial examples and enable their deployment in safety-critical applications. This paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Haoruo Zhao , Hassan Hijazi , Haydn Jones , Juston Moore , Mathieu Tanneau , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on standard medical benchmarks, yet their true clinical reasoning ability remains unclear. Existing datasets predominantly emphasize classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Miao Jing , Mengting Jia , Junling Lin , Zhongxia Shen , Huan Gao , Mingkun Xu , Shangyang Li

In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in the development of so-called certifiable perception methods, which leverage semidefinite, convex relaxations to find global optima of perception problems in robotics. However, many of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Connor Holmes , Frederike Dümbgen , Timothy D Barfoot

Neural networks achieve strong empirical performance, but robustness concerns still hinder deployment in safety-critical applications. Formal verification provides robustness guarantees, but current methods face a scalability-completeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenting Li , Saif R. Kazi , Russell Bent , Duo Zhou , Huan Zhang

We consider the approximation rates of shallow neural networks with respect to the variation norm. Upper bounds on these rates have been established for sigmoidal and ReLU activation functions, but it has remained an important open problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-10 Jonathan W. Siegel , Jinchao Xu

Solving mixed-integer optimization problems with embedded neural networks with ReLU activation functions is challenging. Big-M coefficients that arise in relaxing binary decisions related to these functions grow exponentially with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Christoph Plate , Mirko Hahn , Alexander Klimek , Caroline Ganzer , Kai Sundmacher , Sebastian Sager

The synergy between spiking neural networks and neuromorphic hardware holds promise for the development of energy-efficient AI applications. Inspired by this potential, we revisit the foundational aspects to study the capabilities of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Manjot Singh , Adalbert Fono , Gitta Kutyniok

The training of two-layer neural networks with nonlinear activation functions is an important non-convex optimization problem with numerous applications and promising performance in layerwise deep learning. In this paper, we develop exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

In this work, we study complex-valued data detection performance in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We focus on the problem of recovering an $n$-dimensional signal whose entries are drawn from an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ayed M. Alrashdi , Houssem Sifaou

Neural network training is usually accomplished by solving a non-convex optimization problem using stochastic gradient descent. Although one optimizes over the networks parameters, the main loss function generally only depends on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Julius Berner , Dennis Elbrächter , Philipp Grohs

Neural networks with ReLU activation play a key role in modern machine learning. Understanding the functions represented by ReLU networks is a major topic in current research as this enables a better interpretability of learning processes.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Vincent Froese , Moritz Grillo , Martin Skutella

Understanding implicit bias of gradient descent for generalization capability of ReLU networks has been an important research topic in machine learning research. Unfortunately, even for a single ReLU neuron trained with the square loss, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sangmin Lee , Byeongsu Sim , Jong Chul Ye

With the increase in data availability, it has been widely demonstrated that neural networks (NN) can capture complex system dynamics precisely in a data-driven manner. However, the architectural complexity and nonlinearity of the NNs make…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Shaoru Chen , Kong Yao Chee , Nikolai Matni , M. Ani Hsieh , George J. Pappas

This paper presents the input convex neural network architecture. These are scalar-valued (potentially deep) neural networks with constraints on the network parameters such that the output of the network is a convex function of (some of)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Brandon Amos , Lei Xu , J. Zico Kolter

Neural networks have proved an effective means of learning control policies for autonomous systems, but these learned policies are difficult to understand due to the black-box nature of neural networks. This lack of interpretability makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hector Woods , Philippa Ryan , Rob Alexander

Overwhelming theoretical and empirical evidence shows that mildly overparametrized neural networks -- those with more connections than the size of the training data -- are often able to memorize the training data with $100\%$ accuracy. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Roman Vershynin

We investigate the computational complexity of various problems for simple recurrent neural networks (RNNs) as formal models for recognizing weighted languages. We focus on the single-layer, ReLU-activation, rational-weight RNNs with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yining Chen , Sorcha Gilroy , Andreas Maletti , Jonathan May , Kevin Knight