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This paper explores the expressive power of deep neural networks through the framework of function compositions. We demonstrate that the repeated compositions of a single fixed-size ReLU network exhibit surprising expressive power, despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Shijun Zhang , Jianfeng Lu , Hongkai Zhao

In spite of finite dimension ReLU neural networks being a consistent factor behind recent deep learning successes, a theory of feature learning in these models remains elusive. Currently, insightful theories still rely on assumptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Devon Jarvis , Richard Klein , Benjamin Rosman , Andrew M. Saxe

Deep neural networks (DNNs), particularly those using Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) activation functions, have achieved remarkable success across diverse machine learning tasks, including image recognition, audio processing, and language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Emi Zeger , Mert Pilanci

Neural networks, as currently designed, fall short of achieving true logical intelligence. Modern AI models rely on standard neural computation-inner-product-based transformations and nonlinear activations-to approximate patterns from data.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Youngsung Kim

We develop a geometric approximation theory for deep feed-forward neural networks with ReLU activations. Given a $d$-dimensional hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ represented as the graph of a $C^2$-function $\phi$, we show that a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jonatan Vallin , Karl Larsson , Mats G. Larson

The deep linear network (DLN) is a model for implicit regularization in gradient based optimization of overparametrized learning architectures. Training the DLN corresponds to a Riemannian gradient flow, where the Riemannian metric is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Nadav Cohen , Govind Menon , Zsolt Veraszto

A wide variety of activation functions have been proposed for neural networks. The Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) is especially popular today. There are many practical reasons that motivate the use of the ReLU. This paper provides new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

In this paper it is shown that $C_\beta$-smooth functions can be approximated by deep neural networks with ReLU activation function and with parameters $\{0,\pm \frac{1}{2}, \pm 1, 2\}$. The $l_0$ and $l_1$ parameter norms of considered…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-26 Aleksandr Beknazaryan

Convergence of deep neural networks as the depth of the networks tends to infinity is fundamental in building the mathematical foundation for deep learning. In a previous study, we investigated this question for deep ReLU networks with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yuesheng Xu , Haizhang Zhang

We analyze approximation rates of deep ReLU neural networks for Sobolev-regular functions with respect to weaker Sobolev norms. First, we construct, based on a calculus of ReLU networks, artificial neural networks with ReLU activation…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Ingo Gühring , Gitta Kutyniok , Philipp Petersen

We develop Banach spaces for ReLU neural networks of finite depth $L$ and infinite width. The spaces contain all finite fully connected $L$-layer networks and their $L^2$-limiting objects under bounds on the natural path-norm. Under this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-31 Weinan E , Stephan Wojtowytsch

We demonstrate that a very deep ResNet with stacked modules with one neuron per hidden layer and ReLU activation functions can uniformly approximate any Lebesgue integrable function in $d$ dimensions, i.e. $\ell_1(\mathbb{R}^d)$. Because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Hongzhou Lin , Stefanie Jegelka

An approach to construct explicit integral representations for two-layer ReLU networks is presented, which provides relatively simple representations for any multivariate polynomial. Quantitative bounds are provided for a particular,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-13 Anthony Lee

It is well-known that any matrix $A$ has an LU decomposition. Less well-known is the fact that it has a 'Toeplitz decomposition' $A = T_1 T_2 \cdots T_r$ where $T_i$'s are Toeplitz matrices. We will prove that any continuous function $f :…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yucong Liu , Simiao Jiao , Lek-Heng Lim

In this paper, we investigate the expressivity and approximation properties of deep neural networks employing the ReLU$^k$ activation function for $k \geq 2$. Although deep ReLU networks can approximate polynomials effectively, deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Juncai He , Tong Mao , Jinchao Xu

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are very successful at solving challenging problems with sequential data. However, this observed efficiency is not yet entirely explained by theory. It is known that a certain class of multiplicative RNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Valentin Khrulkov , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Ivan Oseledets

Recently, deep learning has been widely applied in functional data analysis (FDA) with notable empirical success. However, the infinite dimensionality of functional data necessitates an effective dimension reduction approach for functional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Zhongjie Shi , Jun Fan , Linhao Song , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Johan A. K. Suykens

We extend the ReLU Transition Graph (RTG) framework into a comprehensive graph-theoretic model for understanding deep ReLU networks. In this model, each node represents a linear activation region, and edges connect regions that differ by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar

Rectifier (ReLU) deep neural networks (DNN) and their connection with piecewise affine (PWA) functions is analyzed. The paper is an effort to find and study the possibility of representing explicit state feedback policy of model predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Saman Fahandezh-Saadi , Masayoshi Tomizuka