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We study deep neural networks with polynomial activations, particularly their expressive power. For a fixed architecture and activation degree, a polynomial neural network defines an algebraic map from weights to polynomials. The image of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Joe Kileel , Matthew Trager , Joan Bruna

We propose a new approach to the problem of neural network expressivity, which seeks to characterize how structural properties of a neural network family affect the functions it is able to compute. Our approach is based on an interrelated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-20 Maithra Raghu , Ben Poole , Jon Kleinberg , Surya Ganguli , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Quadratization of polynomial and nonpolynomial systems of ordinary differential equations is advantageous in a variety of disciplines, such as systems theory, fluid mechanics, chemical reaction modeling and mathematical analysis. A…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Andrey Bychkov , Opal Issan , Gleb Pogudin , Boris Kramer

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) represent a significant breakthrough in deep learning, promising to bridge the gap between machine learning and the rich theoretical frameworks developed in various mathematical fields…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jaouad Dabounou

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) are elegant reinterpretations of deep networks where continuous time can replace the discrete notion of depth, ODE solvers perform forward propagation, and the adjoint method enables efficient,…

One hypothesis for the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is that they are highly expressive, which enables them to be applied to many problems, and they have a strong inductive bias towards solutions that are simple, known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Jessica Pointing

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a popular mathematical tool for function approximation due to their capability of modelling highly nonlinear functions. Their applications range from image classification and natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 SiQi Zhou , Angela P. Schoellig

The benefits of depth in feedforward neural networks are well known: composing multiple layers of linear transformations with nonlinear activations enables complex computations. While similar effects are expected in recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Maude Lizaire , Michael Rizvi-Martel , Éric Dupuis , Guillaume Rabusseau

Differential equations are frequently used in engineering domains, such as modeling and control of industrial systems, where safety and performance guarantees are of paramount importance. Traditional physics-based modeling approaches…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Aaron Tuor , Jan Drgona , Draguna Vrabie

Neural operators are a type of deep architecture that learns to solve (i.e. learns the nonlinear solution operator of) partial differential equations (PDEs). The current state of the art for these models does not provide explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Emilia Magnani , Nicholas Krämer , Runa Eschenhagen , Lorenzo Rosasco , Philipp Hennig

The expressive power of neural networks is important for understanding deep learning. Most existing works consider this problem from the view of the depth of a network. In this paper, we study how width affects the expressiveness of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Zhou Lu , Hongming Pu , Feicheng Wang , Zhiqiang Hu , Liwei Wang

This papers studies the expressive and computational power of discrete Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). It presents a new framework using discrete ODEs as a central tool for computation and provides several implicit characterizations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Olivier Bournez , Arnaud Durand , Sabrina Ouazzani

We describe a neural-based method for generating exact or approximate solutions to differential equations in the form of mathematical expressions. Unlike other neural methods, our system returns symbolic expressions that can be interpreted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Maysum Panju , Kourosh Parand , Ali Ghodsi

Research in computational deep learning has directed considerable efforts towards hardware-oriented optimisations for deep neural networks, via the simplification of the activation functions, or the quantization of both activations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Gian Paolo Leonardi , Matteo Spallanzani

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs), via their induced flow maps, provide a powerful framework to parameterize invertible transformations for the purpose of representing complex probability distributions. While such models have achieved…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Youssef Marzouk , Zhi Ren , Sven Wang , Jakob Zech

We study the approximation properties of neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs) in the space of continuous functions. Since a neural ODE requires input and output dimensions to be the same, while input and output dimensions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Arturo De Marinis , Davide Murari , Elena Celledoni , Nicola Guglielmi , Brynjulf Owren , Francesco Tudisco

Understanding the power of depth in feed-forward neural networks is an ongoing challenge in the field of deep learning theory. While current works account for the importance of depth for the expressive power of neural-networks, it remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Eran Malach , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

Neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs) are a popular family of continuous-depth deep learning models. In this work, we consider a large family of parameterized ODEs with continuous-in-time parameters, which include…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-13 Pierre Marion

Continuous deep learning architectures enable learning of flexible probabilistic models for predictive modeling as neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs), and for generative modeling as continuous normalizing flows. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Lucas Liebenwein , Ramin Hasani , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus

The primary objective of learning methods is generalization. Classic uniform generalization bounds, which rely on VC-dimension or Rademacher complexity, fail to explain the significant attribute that over-parameterized models in deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Lijia Yu , Yibo Miao , Yifan Zhu , Xiao-Shan Gao , Lijun Zhang