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We discuss the expressive power of neural networks which use the non-smooth ReLU activation function $\varrho(x) = \max\{0,x\}$ by analyzing the approximation theoretic properties of such networks. The existing results mainly fall into two…

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We prove deep neural network (DNN for short) expressivity rate bounds for solution sets of a model class of singularly perturbed, elliptic two-point boundary value problems, in Sobolev norms, on the bounded interval $(-1,1)$. We assume that…

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We study the problem of learning one-hidden-layer neural networks with Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) activation function, where the inputs are sampled from standard Gaussian distribution and the outputs are generated from a noisy teacher…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-21 Xiao Zhang , Yaodong Yu , Lingxiao Wang , Quanquan Gu

In the past decade, significant strides in deep learning have led to numerous groundbreaking applications. Despite these advancements, the understanding of the high generalizability of deep learning, especially in such an over-parametrized…

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Quantile regression is the task of estimating a specified percentile response, such as the median, from a collection of known covariates. We study quantile regression with rectified linear unit (ReLU) neural networks as the chosen model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla , Wesley Tansey , Yanzhen Chen

For one-hidden-layer ReLU networks, we prove that all differentiable local minima are global inside differentiable regions. We give the locations and losses of differentiable local minima, and show that these local minima can be isolated…

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How can local-search methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) avoid bad local minima in training multi-layer neural networks? Why can they fit random labels even given non-convex and non-smooth architectures? Most existing theory…

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Deep neural networks have been successful in many predictive modeling tasks, such as image and language recognition, where large neural networks are often used to obtain good accuracy. Consequently, it is challenging to deploy these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Thiago Serra , Abhinav Kumar , Srikumar Ramalingam

We prove that, for the fundamental regression task of learning a single neuron, training a one-hidden layer ReLU network of any width by gradient flow from a small initialisation converges to zero loss and is implicitly biased to minimise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Dmitry Chistikov , Matthias Englert , Ranko Lazic

This paper quantitatively characterizes the approximation power of deep feed-forward neural networks (FNNs) in terms of the number of neurons. It is shown by construction that ReLU FNNs with width $\mathcal{O}\big(\max\{d\lfloor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Zuowei Shen , Haizhao Yang , Shijun Zhang

We study depth separation in infinite-width neural networks, where complexity is controlled by the overall squared $\ell_2$-norm of the weights (sum of squares of all weights in the network). Whereas previous depth separation results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Suzanna Parkinson , Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett , Ohad Shamir , Nathan Srebro

Learning with neural networks relies on the complexity of the representable functions, but more importantly, the particular assignment of typical parameters to functions of different complexity. Taking the number of activation regions as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-17 Hanna Tseran , Guido Montúfar

We prove that training neural networks on 1-D data is equivalent to solving convex Lasso problems with discrete, explicitly defined dictionary matrices. We consider neural networks with piecewise linear activations and depths ranging from 2…

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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

In this paper, we investigate the Rademacher complexity of deep sparse neural networks, where each neuron receives a small number of inputs. We prove generalization bounds for multilayered sparse ReLU neural networks, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tomer Galanti , Mengjia Xu , Liane Galanti , Tomaso Poggio

In deep learning, dense layer connectivity has become a key design principle in deep neural networks (DNNs), enabling efficient information flow and strong performance across a range of applications. In this work, we model densely connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jinshu Huang , Haibin Su , Xue-Cheng Tai , Chunlin Wu

We analyse the convergence of one-hidden-layer ReLU networks trained by gradient flow on $n$ data points. Our main contribution leverages the high dimensionality of the ambient space, which implies low correlation of the input samples, to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Léo Dana , Francis Bach , Loucas Pillaud-Vivien

We introduce switched linear projections for expressing the activity of a neuron in a deep neural network in terms of a single linear projection in the input space. The method works by isolating the active subnetwork, a series of linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Lech Szymanski , Brendan McCane , Craig Atkinson

The number of linear regions has been studied as a proxy of complexity for ReLU networks. However, the empirical success of network compression techniques like pruning and knowledge distillation, suggest that in the overparameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Matteo Gamba , Adrian Chmielewski-Anders , Josephine Sullivan , Hossein Azizpour , Mårten Björkman

We investigate the implications of removing bias in ReLU networks regarding their expressivity and learning dynamics. We first show that two-layer bias-free ReLU networks have limited expressivity: the only odd function two-layer bias-free…

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