English
Related papers

Related papers: Approximation by Neural Network operators in $L^p$…

200 papers

This work studies the sampling complexity of learning with ReLU neural networks and neural operators. For mappings belonging to relevant approximation spaces, we derive upper bounds on the best-possible convergence rate of any learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Philipp Grohs , Samuel Lanthaler , Margaret Trautner

Traditional measures of smoothness often fail to provide accurate $L_p$-error estimates for approximation by sampling or interpolation operators, especially for functions with low smoothness. To address this issue, we introduce a modified…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Yurii Kolomoitsev

Neural operators have emerged as a powerful tool for learning mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, their approximation properties in Sobolev norms remain poorly quantified, even though these norms control both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nicole Hao

We study the approximation of functions by tensor networks (TNs). We show that Lebesgue $L^p$-spaces in one dimension can be identified with tensor product spaces of arbitrary order through tensorization. We use this tensor product…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Mazen Ali , Anthony Nouy

While it is widely known that neural networks are universal approximators of continuous functions, a less known and perhaps more powerful result is that a neural network with a single hidden layer can approximate accurately any nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Lu Lu , Pengzhan Jin , George Em Karniadakis

Operator learning based on neural operators has emerged as a promising paradigm for the data-driven approximation of operators, mapping between infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. Despite significant empirical progress, our theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Samuel Lanthaler

We prove uniform $L^p$ bounds for multilinear operators which are given by multipliers whose symbols are singular on a one dimensional subspace. The novelty is that these bounds are uniform in the choice of the subspace.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Camil Muscalu , Terence Tao , Christoph Thiele

We establish $L^p$-type universal approximation theorems for general and non-anticipative functionals on suitable rough path spaces, showing that linear functionals acting on signatures of time-extended rough paths are dense with respect to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Mihriban Ceylan , David J. Prömel

In recent years, functional neural networks have been proposed and studied in order to approximate nonlinear continuous functionals defined on $L^p([-1, 1]^s)$ for integers $s\ge1$ and $1\le p<\infty$. However, their theoretical properties…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-11 Linhao Song , Jun Fan , Di-Rong Chen , Ding-Xuan Zhou

We study the fundamental limits to the expressive power of neural networks. Given two sets $F$, $G$ of real-valued functions, we first prove a general lower bound on how well functions in $F$ can be approximated in $L^p(\mu)$ norm by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 El Mehdi Achour , Armand Foucault , Sébastien Gerchinovitz , François Malgouyres

Recently, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be successful when employed in areas such as reduced order modeling of parametrized PDEs. Despite their accuracy and efficiency, the approaches available in the literature…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Nicola Rares Franco , Stefania Fresca , Andrea Manzoni , Paolo Zunino

Neural ODEs and i-ResNet are recently proposed methods for enforcing invertibility of residual neural models. Having a generic technique for constructing invertible models can open new avenues for advances in learning systems, but so far…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Han Zhang , Xi Gao , Jacob Unterman , Tom Arodz

This work addresses two fundamental limitations in neural network approximation theory. We demonstrate that a three-dimensional network architecture enables a significantly more efficient representation of sawtooth functions, which serves…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 ZeYu Li , FengLei Fan , TieYong Zeng

We study the approximation rates of a class of deep neural network approximations of operators which arise as data-to-solution maps $\mathcal{S}$ of linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), and act between pairs $X,Y$ of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Carlo Marcati , Christoph Schwab

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

In this paper we obtain degree of approximation of functions in Lp by operators associated with their Fourier series using integral modulus of continuity. These results generalize many know results and are proved under less stringent…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-05-29 R. N. Mohapatra , B. Szal

Operator learning has been highly successful for continuous mappings between infinite-dimensional spaces, such as PDE solution operators. However, many operators of interest-including differential operators-are discontinuous or set-valued,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Takashi Furuya , Yury Korolev , Takaharu Yaguchi

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) is an invertible neural network architecture promising for its free-form Jacobian and the availability of a tractable Jacobian determinant estimator. Recently, the representation power of NODEs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Takeshi Teshima , Koichi Tojo , Masahiro Ikeda , Isao Ishikawa , Kenta Oono

This paper studies approximation properties of linear sampling operators in general Banach lattices $X$. We obtain matching direct and inverse approximation estimates, convergence criteria, equivalence results involving special…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Yurii Kolomoitsev

We establish in this work approximation results of deep neural networks for smooth functions measured in Sobolev norms, motivated by recent development of numerical solvers for partial differential equations using deep neural networks. {Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Sean Hon , Haizhao Yang