English
Related papers

Related papers: Universal Approximation Theorem for Input-Connecte…

200 papers

Deep Operator Networks (DeepONets) provide a branch-trunk neural architecture for approximating nonlinear operators acting between function spaces. In the classical operator approximation framework, the input is a function $u\in C(K_1)$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Vugar Ismailov

A candidate explanation of the good empirical performance of deep neural networks is the implicit regularization effect of first order optimization methods. Inspired by this, we prove a convergence theorem for nonconvex composite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Dávid Terjék , Diego González-Sánchez

We study the approximation of functions which are invariant with respect to certain permutations of the input indices using flow maps of dynamical systems. Such invariant functions includes the much studied translation-invariant ones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Qianxiao Li , Ting Lin , Zuowei Shen

We consider regression models involving multilayer perceptrons (MLP) with one hidden layer and a Gaussian noise. The estimation of the parameters of the MLP can be done by maximizing the likelihood of the model. In this framework, it is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-25 Joseph Rynkiewicz

Constructing neural networks for function approximation is a classical and longstanding topic in approximation theory. In this paper, we aim at constructing deep neural networks (deep nets for short) with three hidden layers to approximate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Xia Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the go-to model for computer vision. Recently, attention-based networks, such as the Vision Transformer, have also become popular. In this paper we show that while convolutions and attention are both…

We propose a new optimization method for training feed-forward neural networks. By rewriting the activation function as an equivalent proximal operator, we approximate a feed-forward neural network by adding the proximal operators to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Jia Li , Cong Fang , Zhouchen Lin

In this paper, we introduce the notion of liquid time-constant (LTC) recurrent neural networks (RNN)s, a subclass of continuous-time RNNs, with varying neuronal time-constant realized by their nonlinear synaptic transmission model. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Ramin M. Hasani , Mathias Lechner , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

Recent years have witnessed a hot wave of deep neural networks in various domains; however, it is not yet well understood theoretically. A theoretical characterization of deep neural networks should point out their approximation ability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Gao Zhang , Jin-Hui Wu , Shao-Qun Zhang

In this paper we present a class of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) called non-overlapping CNNs in the study of approximation capabilities of CNNs. We prove that such networks with sigmoidal activation function are capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Weike Chang

We investigate deep morphological neural networks (DMNNs). We demonstrate that despite their inherent non-linearity, "linear" activations are essential for DMNNs. To preserve their inherent sparsity, we propose architectures that constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Konstantinos Fotopoulos , Petros Maragos

Despite the success of deep learning in domains such as image, voice, and graphs, there has been little progress in deep representation learning for domains without a known structure between features. For instance, a tabular dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Mohammad Kachuee , Sajad Darabi , Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Resistor networks have recently been studied as analog computing platforms for machine learning, particularly due to their compatibility with the Equilibrium Propagation training framework. In this work, we explore the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Benjamin Scellier , Siddhartha Mishra

Implicit neural fields, typically encoded by a multilayer perceptron (MLP) that maps from coordinates (e.g., xyz) to signals (e.g., signed distances), have shown remarkable promise as a high-fidelity and compact representation. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Ziya Erkoç , Fangchang Ma , Qi Shan , Matthias Nießner , Angela Dai

We investigate the impact of channel-wise mixing via multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) on the generalization capabilities of recurrent convolutional networks. Specifically, we compare two architectures: DARC (Depth Aware Recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nathan Breslow

The standard Universal Approximation Theorem for operator neural networks (NNs) holds for arbitrary width and bounded depth. Here, we prove that operator NNs of bounded width and arbitrary depth are universal approximators for continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Annan Yu , Chloé Becquey , Diana Halikias , Matthew Esmaili Mallory , Alex Townsend

Group symmetry is inherent in a wide variety of data distributions. Data processing that preserves symmetry is described as an equivariant map and often effective in achieving high performance. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-29 Wataru Kumagai , Akiyoshi Sannai

According to conventional neural network theories, the feature of single-hidden-layer feedforward neural networks(SLFNs) resorts to parameters of the weighted connections and hidden nodes. SLFNs are universal approximators when at least the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Yimin Yang , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Guangbin Huang , Yaonan Wang

Landmark universal function approximation results for neural networks with trained weights and biases provided the impetus for the ubiquitous use of neural networks as learning models in neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Recent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ezekiel Williams , Alexandre Payeur , Avery Hee-Woon Ryoo , Thomas Jiralerspong , Matthew G. Perich , Luca Mazzucato , Guillaume Lajoie

In this paper we consider the limiting case of neural networks (NNs) architectures when the number of neurons in each hidden layer and the number of hidden layers tend to infinity thus forming a continuum, and we derive approximation errors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Christophe Prieur , Mircea Lazar , Bogdan Robu