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In a function approximation with a neural network, an input dataset is mapped to an output index by optimizing the parameters of each hidden-layer unit. For a unary function, we present constraints on the parameters and its second…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-22 Masayo Inoue , Mana Futamura , Hirokazu Ninomiya

Differentiable neural computers extend artificial neural networks with an explicit memory without interference, thus enabling the model to perform classic computation tasks such as graph traversal. However, such models are difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Benjamin Paaßen , Alexander Schulz , Terrence C. Stewart , Barbara Hammer

Previous research has explored the computational expressivity of Transformer models in simulating Boolean circuits or Turing machines. However, the learnability of these simulators from observational data has remained an open question. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Morris Yau , Ekin Akyürek , Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Stefanie Jegelka , Jacob Andreas

Implicit Neural Representation (INR), leveraging a neural network to transform coordinate input into corresponding attributes, has recently driven significant advances in several vision-related domains. However, the performance of INR is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Moein Heidari , Reza Rezaeian , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof , Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

The transformer architecture is central to the success of modern Large Language Models (LLMs), in part due to its surprising ability to perform a wide range of tasks - including mathematical reasoning, memorization, and retrieval - using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yihe Dong , Lorenzo Noci , Mikhail Khodak , Mufan Li

Recent progress on Transformers and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) models provide new network architectural designs for computer vision tasks. Although these models proved to be effective in many vision tasks such as image recognition, there…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Zhengzhong Tu , Hossein Talebi , Han Zhang , Feng Yang , Peyman Milanfar , Alan Bovik , Yinxiao Li

Large vision transformers present impressive scalability, as their performance can be well improved with increased model capacity. Nevertheless, their cumbersome parameters results in exorbitant computational and memory demands. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chengchao Shen

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are very successful at solving challenging problems with sequential data. However, this observed efficiency is not yet entirely explained by theory. It is known that a certain class of multiplicative RNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Valentin Khrulkov , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Ivan Oseledets

Convex relaxations are a key component of training and certifying provably safe neural networks. However, despite substantial progress, a wide and poorly understood accuracy gap to standard networks remains, raising the question of whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Maximilian Baader , Mark Niklas Müller , Yuhao Mao , Martin Vechev

Deep neural networks with rectified linear units (ReLU) are getting more and more popular due to their universal representation power and successful applications. Some theoretical progress regarding the approximation power of deep ReLU…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Bo Li , Shanshan Tang , Haijun Yu

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between deep neural networks (DNN) with rectified linear unit (ReLU) function as the activation function and continuous piecewise linear (CPWL) functions, especially CPWL functions from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Juncai He , Lin Li , Jinchao Xu , Chunyue Zheng

Deep neural networks have been successful in many predictive modeling tasks, such as image and language recognition, where large neural networks are often used to obtain good accuracy. Consequently, it is challenging to deploy these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Thiago Serra , Abhinav Kumar , Srikumar Ramalingam

This paper investigates the ability of finite samples to identify two-layer irreducible shallow networks with various nonlinear activation functions, including rectified linear units (ReLU) and analytic functions such as the logistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yu Xia , Zhiqiang Xu

The rapid progress seen in terms of large-scale generative AI is largely based on the attention mechanism. It is conversely non-trivial to conceive small-scale applications for which attention-based architectures outperform traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Claudius Gros

Analogical reasoning is a hallmark of human intelligence, enabling us to solve new problems by transferring knowledge from one situation to another. Yet, developing artificial intelligence systems capable of robust human-like analogical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Philipp Hellwig , Willem Zuidema , Claire E. Stevenson , Martha Lewis

It is commonly recognized that the expressiveness of deep neural networks is contingent upon a range of factors, encompassing their depth, width, and other relevant considerations. Currently, the practical performance of the majority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xuan Qi , Yi Wei

In contrast to RNNs, which compress their history into a single hidden state, Transformers can attend to all past tokens directly. However, standard Transformers rely solely on the hidden state from the previous layer to represent the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Gleb Gerasimov , Yaroslav Aksenov , Nikita Balagansky , Viacheslav Sinii , Daniil Gavrilov

This paper investigates the ability of transformer-based models to learn structural recursion from examples. Recursion is a universal concept in both natural and formal languages. Structural recursion is central to the programming language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Dylan Zhang , Curt Tigges , Zory Zhang , Stella Biderman , Maxim Raginsky , Talia Ringer

Combining neural networks with continuous logic and multicriteria decision making tools can reduce the black box nature of neural models. In this study, we show that nilpotent logical systems offer an appropriate mathematical framework for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Orsolya Csiszár , Gábor Csiszár , József Dombi

Recent research in mechanistic interpretability has attempted to reverse-engineer Transformer models by carefully inspecting network weights and activations. However, these approaches require considerable manual effort and still fall short…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Dan Friedman , Alexander Wettig , Danqi Chen