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This paper presents a new mathematical framework to analyze the loss functions of deep neural networks with ReLU functions. Furthermore, as as application of this theory, we prove that the loss functions can reconstruct the inputs of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-21 Akiyoshi Sannai

We consider a binary classifier defined as the sign of a tropical rational function, that is, as the difference of two convex piecewise linear functions. The parameter space of ReLU neural networks is contained as a semialgebraic set inside…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Marie-Charlotte Brandenburg , Georg Loho , Guido Montúfar

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

Neural networks often operate in the overparameterized regime, in which there are far more parameters than training samples, allowing the training data to be fit perfectly. That is, training the network effectively learns an interpolating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Suzanna Parkinson , Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett

This paper introduces a class of mixed-integer formulations for trained ReLU neural networks. The approach balances model size and tightness by partitioning node inputs into a number of groups and forming the convex hull over the partitions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Calvin Tsay , Jan Kronqvist , Alexander Thebelt , Ruth Misener

Deep neural network with rectified linear units (ReLU) is getting more and more popular recently. However, the derivatives of the function represented by a ReLU network are not continuous, which limit the usage of ReLU network to situations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Bo Li , Shanshan Tang , Haijun Yu

In the framework of convolutional neural networks that lie at the heart of deep learning, downsampling is often performed with a max-pooling operation that only retains the element with maximum activation, while completely discarding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ashwani Kumar

Neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions, such as rectified linear units (ReLU) or maxout, are among the most fundamental models in modern machine learning. We make a step towards proving lower bounds on the size of such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Christoph Hertrich , Georg Loho

Deep neural networks trained using a softmax layer at the top and the cross-entropy loss are ubiquitous tools for image classification. Yet, this does not naturally enforce intra-class similarity nor inter-class margin of the learned deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 José Lezama , Qiang Qiu , Pablo Musé , Guillermo Sapiro

A topological neural network (TNN), which takes data from a Tychonoff topological space instead of the usual finite dimensional space, is introduced. As a consequence, a distributional neural network (DNN) that takes Borel measures as data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Michael A. Kouritzin , Daniel Richard

We apply tropical geometry to study matrix algebras over a field with valuation. Using the shapes of min-max convexity, known as polytropes, we revisit the graduated orders introduced by Plesken and Zassenhaus. These are classified by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Yassine El Maazouz , Marvin Anas Hahn , Gabriele Nebe , Mima Stanojkovski , Bernd Sturmfels

3D shape representation and its processing have substantial effects on 3D shape recognition. The polygon mesh as a 3D shape representation has many advantages in computer graphics and geometry processing. However, there are still some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Mohsen Yavartanoo , Shih-Hsuan Hung , Reyhaneh Neshatavar , Yue Zhang , Kyoung Mu Lee

"Deep Learning"/"Deep Neural Nets" is a technological marvel that is now increasingly deployed at the cutting-edge of artificial intelligence tasks. This dramatic success of deep learning in the last few years has been hinged on an enormous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Anirbit Mukherjee

Head pose estimation is a crucial problem for many tasks, such as driver attention, fatigue detection, and human behaviour analysis. It is well known that neural networks are better at handling classification problems than regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Zhongxu Hu , Yang Xing , Chen Lv , Peng Hang , Jie Liu

We develop a geometric approximation theory for deep feed-forward neural networks with ReLU activations. Given a $d$-dimensional hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ represented as the graph of a $C^2$-function $\phi$, we show that a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jonatan Vallin , Karl Larsson , Mats G. Larson

Tropical geometry has recently found several applications in the analysis of neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions. This paper presents a new look at the problem of tropical polynomial division and its application to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ioannis Kordonis , Petros Maragos

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is one of the most popular architectures used in Natural Language Processsing (NLP) tasks because its recurrent structure is very suitable to process variable-length text. RNN can utilize distributed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Peng Zhou , Zhenyu Qi , Suncong Zheng , Jiaming Xu , Hongyun Bao , Bo Xu

We find that simple neural networks with ReLU activation generate polytopes as an approximation of a unit sphere in various dimensions. The species of polytopes are regulated by the network architecture, such as the number of units and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Koji Hashimoto , Tomoya Naito , Hisashi Naito

This paper studies the expressive power of artificial neural networks with rectified linear units. In order to study them as a model of real-valued computation, we introduce the concept of Max-Affine Arithmetic Programs and show equivalence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Christoph Hertrich , Leon Sering

Deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) are inherently complex and often viewed as black box in nature. This paper develops an approach for interpreting convolutional neural networks for text classification problems by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Wei Zhao , Rahul Singh , Tarun Joshi , Agus Sudjianto , Vijayan N. Nair