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Neural operator methods have emerged as powerful tools for learning mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, yet their potential in optimal control remains largely unexplored. We focus on multi-task control problems, whose…

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In this work, we introduce new approximation operators for univariate set-valued functions with general compact images. We adapt linear approximation methods for real-valued functions by replacing linear combinations of numbers with new…

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We introduce an abstract neural flow framework for neural networks and neural operators. The framework contains two continuous-depth models, namely neural flows with composition and separation structures, and covers both finite-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Shuang Chen , Juncai He , Xue-Cheng Tai

Proximal operators are now ubiquitous in non-smooth optimization. Since their introduction in the seminal work of Moreau, many papers have shown their effectiveness on a wide variety of problems, culminating in their use to construct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Guillaume Lauga , Samuel Vaiter

Neural network based approximate computing is a universal architecture promising to gain tremendous energy-efficiency for many error resilient applications. To guarantee the approximation quality, existing works deploy two neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Zhenghao Peng , Xuyang Chen , Chengwen Xu , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang , Cewu Lu , Li Jiang

Motivated by structures that appear in deep neural networks, we investigate nonlinear composite models alternating proximity and affine operators defined on different spaces. We first show that a wide range of activation operators used in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

We consider in this paper the optimal approximations of convex univariate functions with feed-forward Relu neural networks. We are interested in the following question: what is the minimal approximation error given the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Bo Liu , Yi Liang

Operator learning refers to the application of ideas from machine learning to approximate (typically nonlinear) operators mapping between Banach spaces of functions. Such operators often arise from physical models expressed in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Nikola B. Kovachki , Samuel Lanthaler , Andrew M. Stuart

As an emerging paradigm in scientific machine learning, neural operators aim to learn operators, via neural networks, that map between infinite-dimensional function spaces. Several neural operators have been recently developed. However, all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Pengzhan Jin , Shuai Meng , Lu Lu

Neural nets are known to be universal approximators. In particular, formal neurons implementing wavelets have been shown to build nets able to approximate any multidimensional task. Such very specialized formal neurons may be, however,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 B. G. Giraud , A. Touzeau

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

We study the approximation and statistical complexity of learning collections of operators in a shared multi-task setting, with a focus on the Multiple Neural Operators (MNO) architecture. For broad classes of Lipschitz multiple operator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Adrien Weihs , Hayden Schaeffer

Multivariate function approximation is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Classic multivariate function approximations rely on hand-crafted basis functions (e.g., polynomial basis and Fourier basis), which limits their approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wei-Hao Wu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Xi-Le Zhao , Yisi Luo , Deyu Meng

Rational and neural network based approximations are efficient tools in modern approximation. These approaches are able to produce accurate approximations to nonsmooth and non-Lipschitz functions, including multivariate domain functions. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Vinesha Peiris , Reinier Diaz Millan , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

The study of universal approximation of arbitrary functions $f: \mathcal{X} \to \mathcal{Y}$ by neural networks has a rich and thorough history dating back to Kolmogorov (1957). In the case of learning finite dimensional maps, many authors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 William H. Guss , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In this paper we study shallow neural network functions which are linear combinations of compositions of activation and quadratic functions, replacing standard affine linear functions, often called neurons. We show the universality of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Leon Frischauf , Otmar Scherzer , Cong Shi

Proximal operators are fundamental across many applications in signal processing and machine learning, including solving ill-posed inverse problems. Recent work has introduced Learned Proximal Networks (LPNs), providing parametric functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Oriel Savir , Zhenghan Fang , Jeremias Sulam

Neural operators have emerged as transformative tools for learning mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, offering useful applications in solving complex partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper presents a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Vu-Anh Le , Mehmet Dik

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

We investigate the explanability properties of the recently proposed linear-min-max neural networks. At initialization, they can be interpreted as k-medoids with the infinity norm as a distance. Then, they are trained using subgradient…

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