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Neural networks have many successful applications, while much less theoretical understanding has been gained. Towards bridging this gap, we study the problem of learning a two-layer overparameterized ReLU neural network for multi-class…

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Recursive least squares (RLS) algorithms were once widely used for training small-scale neural networks, due to their fast convergence. However, previous RLS algorithms are unsuitable for training deep neural networks (DNNs), since they…

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When and how can an attention mechanism learn to selectively attend to informative tokens, thereby enabling detection of weak, rare, and sparsely located features? We address these questions theoretically in a sparse-token classification…

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The subject of deep learning has recently attracted users of machine learning from various disciplines, including: medical diagnosis and bioinformatics, financial market analysis and online advertisement, speech and handwriting recognition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Charles K. Chui , Shao-Bo Lin , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is a fundamental structure in deep learning. Recently, some works study the training process of over-parameterized neural networks, and show that over-parameterized networks can learn functions in some notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Lifu Wang , Bo Shen , Bo Hu , Xing Cao

We propose an efficient hybrid least squares/gradient descent method to accelerate DeepONet training. Since the output of DeepONet can be viewed as linear with respect to the last layer parameters of the branch network, these parameters can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Jun Choi , Chang-Ock Lee , Minam Moon

Giving provable guarantees for learning neural networks is a core challenge of machine learning theory. Most prior work gives parameter recovery guarantees for one hidden layer networks, however, the networks used in practice have multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Surbhi Goel , Rina Panigrahy

Graph neural networks (GNNs) aim to learn well-trained representations in a lower-dimension space for downstream tasks while preserving the topological structures. In recent years, attention mechanism, which is brilliant in the fields of…

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We investigate the ability of deep neural networks to identify the support of the target function. Our findings reveal that mini-batch SGD effectively learns the support in the first layer of the network by shrinking to zero the weights…

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While it is commonly observed in practice that pruning networks to a certain level of sparsity can improve the quality of the features, a theoretical explanation of this phenomenon remains elusive. In this work, we investigate this by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-14 Nuri Mert Vural , Murat A. Erdogdu

Although graph neural networks (GNNs) have made great progress recently on learning from graph-structured data in practice, their theoretical guarantee on generalizability remains elusive in the literature. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinjun Xiong

Feature maps in deep neural network generally contain different semantics. Existing methods often omit their characteristics that may lead to sub-optimal results. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end deep saliency network which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Fengdong Sun , Wenhui Li , Yuanyuan Guan

The highly non-linear nature of deep neural networks causes them to be susceptible to adversarial examples and have unstable gradients which hinders interpretability. However, existing methods to solve these issues, such as adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Suraj Srinivas , Kyle Matoba , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Francois Fleuret

We consider the natural problem of learning a ReLU network from queries, which was recently remotivated by model extraction attacks. In this work, we present a polynomial-time algorithm that can learn a depth-two ReLU network from queries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Amit Daniely , Elad Granot

In this work, we present a comprehensive study combining mathematical and computational analysis to explain why a two-layer neural network struggles to handle high frequencies in both approximation and learning, especially when machine…

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Imbalanced node classification in graph neural networks (GNNs) happens when some labels are much more common than others, which causes the model to learn unfairly and perform badly on the less common classes. To solve this problem, we…

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The success of current Entity Alignment (EA) task depends largely on the supervision information provided by labeled data. Considering the cost of labeled data, most supervised methods are difficult to apply in practical scenarios.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Weishan Cai , Wenjun Ma , Yuncheng Jiang

We study nonparametric regression using an over-parameterized two-layer neural networks trained with algorithmic guarantees in this paper. We consider the setting where the training features are drawn uniformly from the unit sphere in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-07 Yingzhen Yang , Ping Li

Over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) with sufficient capacity to memorize random noise can achieve excellent generalization performance, challenging the bias-variance trade-off in classical learning theory. Recent studies claimed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xiao Zhang , Haoyi Xiong , Dongrui Wu

We consider linear models for stochastic dynamics. To any such model can be associated a network (namely a directed graph) describing which degrees of freedom interact under the dynamics. We tackle the problem of learning such a network…

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