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We study the distributional properties of linear neural networks with random parameters in the context of large networks, where the number of layers diverges in proportion to the number of neurons per layer. Prior works have shown that in…

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In this paper, we study the infinite-depth limit of finite-width residual neural networks with random Gaussian weights. With proper scaling, we show that by fixing the width and taking the depth to infinity, the pre-activations converge in…

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Finite-width fully connected neural networks with Gaussian-initialized weights deviate from their infinite-width Gaussian limit, exhibiting non-vanishing higher-order cumulants. We approximate these deviations, for a neural network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Lucia Celli

We study the distribution of a fully connected neural network with random Gaussian weights and biases in which the hidden layer widths are proportional to a large constant $n$. Under mild assumptions on the non-linearity, we obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Stefano Favaro , Boris Hanin , Domenico Marinucci , Ivan Nourdin , Giovanni Peccati

Gaussian Process is a non-parametric prior which can be understood as a distribution on the function space intuitively. It is known that by introducing appropriate prior to the weights of the neural networks, Gaussian Process can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-08 Erdong Guo , David Draper

This article studies the infinite-width limit of deep feedforward neural networks whose weights are dependent, and modelled via a mixture of Gaussian distributions. Each hidden node of the network is assigned a nonnegative random variable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-06 Hoil Lee , Fadhel Ayed , Paul Jung , Juho Lee , Hongseok Yang , François Caron

We study the Finite-Dimensional Distributions (FDDs) of deep neural networks with randomly initialized weights that have finite-order moments. Specifically, we establish Gaussian approximation bounds in the Wasserstein-$1$ norm between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Nathan Ross

Recent developments in applications of artificial neural networks with over $n=10^{14}$ parameters make it extremely important to study the large $n$ behaviour of such networks. Most works studying wide neural networks have focused on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Luís Carvalho , João Lopes Costa , José Mourão , Gonçalo Oliveira

We study the extent to which wide neural networks may be approximated by Gaussian processes when initialized with random weights. It is a well-established fact that as the width of a network goes to infinity, its law converges to that of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Ronen Eldan , Dan Mikulincer , Tselil Schramm

Self-attention layers have become fundamental building blocks of modern deep neural networks, yet their theoretical understanding remains limited, particularly from the perspective of random matrix theory. In this work, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-15 Tomohiro Hayase , Benoît Collins , Ryo Karakida

The connection between Bayesian neural networks and Gaussian processes gained a lot of attention in the last few years, with the flagship result that hidden units converge to a Gaussian process limit when the layers width tends to infinity.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-30 Mariia Vladimirova , Julyan Arbel , Stéphane Girard

This article gives a new proof that fully connected neural networks with random weights and biases converge to Gaussian processes in the regime where the input dimension, output dimension, and depth are kept fixed, while the hidden layer…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Boris Hanin

This work analyzes Graph Neural Networks, a generalization of Fully-Connected Deep Neural Nets on Graph structured data, when their width, that is the number of nodes in each fullyconnected layer is increasing to infinity. Infinite Width…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yunus Cobanoglu

Graph transformers are the state-of-the-art for learning from graph-structured data and are empirically known to avoid several pitfalls of message-passing architectures. However, there is limited theoretical analysis on why these models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Nil Ayday , Lingchu Yang , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

We show that taking the width and depth to infinity in a deep neural network with skip connections, when branches are scaled by $1/\sqrt{depth}$ (the only nontrivial scaling), result in the same covariance structure no matter how that limit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-11 Soufiane Hayou , Greg Yang

This paper studies the infinite-width limit of deep linear neural networks initialized with random parameters. We obtain that, when the number of neurons diverges, the training dynamics converge (in a precise sense) to the dynamics obtained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Lénaïc Chizat , Maria Colombo , Xavier Fernández-Real , Alessio Figalli

There is a growing literature on the study of large-width properties of deep Gaussian neural networks (NNs), i.e. deep NNs with Gaussian-distributed parameters or weights, and Gaussian stochastic processes. Motivated by some empirical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Alberto Bordino , Stefano Favaro , Sandra Fortini

There is a growing amount of literature on the relationship between wide neural networks (NNs) and Gaussian processes (GPs), identifying an equivalence between the two for a variety of NN architectures. This equivalence enables, for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-19 Jiri Hron , Yasaman Bahri , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Roman Novak

In this paper, we study the quantitative convergence of shallow neural networks trained via gradient descent to their associated Gaussian processes in the infinite-width limit. While previous work has established qualitative convergence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Eloy Mosig , Andrea Agazzi , Dario Trevisan

A longstanding goal in deep learning research has been to precisely characterize training and generalization. However, the often complex loss landscapes of neural networks have made a theory of learning dynamics elusive. In this work, we…

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