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We investigate the generalization and optimization properties of shallow neural-network classifiers trained by gradient descent in the interpolating regime. Specifically, in a realizable scenario where model weights can achieve arbitrarily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-29 Hossein Taheri , Christos Thrampoulidis

For partial differential equations on domains of arbitrary shapes, existing works of neural operators attempt to learn a mapping from geometries to solutions. It often requires a large dataset of geometry-solution pairs in order to obtain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ze Cheng , Zhongkai Hao , Xiaoqiang Wang , Jianing Huang , Youjia Wu , Xudan Liu , Yiru Zhao , Songming Liu , Hang Su

We consider the dynamics of gradient descent (GD) in overparameterized single hidden layer neural networks with a squared loss function. Recently, it has been shown that, under some conditions, the parameter values obtained using GD achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Siddhartha Satpathi , R Srikant

Understanding the advantages of deep neural networks trained by gradient descent (GD) compared to shallow models remains an open theoretical challenge. In this paper, we introduce a class of target functions (single and multi-index Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-17 Yatin Dandi , Luca Pesce , Lenka Zdeborová , Florent Krzakala

Neural operators excel as deterministic surrogates, but inevitably collapse to the conditional mean when applied to stochastic PDEs, discarding the variance and tail structure upon which uncertainty quantification depends. Recovering this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Kai Hidajat

The fragility of deep neural networks to adversarially-chosen inputs has motivated the need to revisit deep learning algorithms. Including adversarial examples during training is a popular defense mechanism against adversarial attacks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jacob H. Seidman , Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado , George J. Pappas

Deep learning surrogate models have shown promise in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Among them, the Fourier neural operator (FNO) achieves good accuracy, and is significantly faster compared to numerical solvers, on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zongyi Li , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Burigede Liu , Anima Anandkumar

We present a novel training method for deep operator networks (DeepONets), one of the most popular neural network models for operators. DeepONets are constructed by two sub-networks, namely the branch and trunk networks. Typically, the two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Sanghyun Lee , Yeonjong Shin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are typically optimized using various forms of mini-batch gradient descent algorithm. A major motivation for mini-batch gradient descent is that with a suitably chosen batch size, available computing resources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Oyebade K. Oyedotun , Konstantinos Papadopoulos , Djamila Aouada

Modern convolutional networks, incorporating rectifiers and max-pooling, are neither smooth nor convex; standard guarantees therefore do not apply. Nevertheless, methods from convex optimization such as gradient descent and Adam are widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 David Balduzzi , Brian McWilliams , Tony Butler-Yeoman

Neural networks (NNs) hold great promise for advancing inverse design via topology optimization (TO), yet misconceptions about their application persist. This article focuses on neural topology optimization (neural TO), which leverages NNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Suryanarayanan Manoj Sanu , Alejandro M. Aragon , Miguel A. Bessa

Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) have emerged as leading surrogates for solver operators for various functional problems, yet their stability, generalization and frequency behavior lack a principled explanation. We present a systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Taeyoung Kim

Recently, deep neural network (DNN) has been widely adopted in the design of intelligent communication systems thanks to its strong learning ability and low testing complexity. However, most current offline DNN-based methods still suffer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiabao Gao , Caijun Zhong , Geoffrey Ye Li , Zhaoyang Zhang

Ensuring solution feasibility is a key challenge in developing Deep Neural Network (DNN) schemes for solving constrained optimization problems, due to inherent DNN prediction errors. In this paper, we propose a ``preventive learning''…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Tianyu Zhao , Xiang Pan , Minghua Chen , Steven H. Low

This work introduces a neural operator based surrogate modeling framework for neutron transport computation. Two architectures, the Deep Operator Network (DeepONet) and the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO), were trained for fixed source…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Md Hossain Sahadath , Qiyun Cheng , Shaowu Pan , Wei Ji

Neural operators improve conventional neural networks by expanding their capabilities of functional mappings between different function spaces to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). One of the most notable methods is the Fourier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xuanle Zhao , Yue Sun , Tielin Zhang , Bo Xu

Learning to Optimize is a recently proposed framework for learning optimization algorithms using reinforcement learning. In this paper, we explore learning an optimization algorithm for training shallow neural nets. Such high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Ke Li , Jitendra Malik

Neural operators have shown remarkable performance in approximating solutions of partial differential equations. However, their convergence behavior under grid refinement is still not well understood from the viewpoint of numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Kyoungjin Jung , Jae Yong Lee , Dongwook Shin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision; however, training DNNs for satisfactory performance remains challenging and suffers from sensitivity to empirical selections of an optimization algorithm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Bing Wei , Xuesong Tang

The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) brings opportunities and challenges to the operation of distribution systems. To ensure network integrity, dynamic operating envelopes (DOEs) are issued by utilities to DERs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Hongyi Li , Liming Liu , Yunyi Li , Zhaoyu Wang