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Probabilistic generative neural networks are useful for many applications, such as image classification, speech recognition and occlusion removal. However, the power budget for hardware implementations of neural networks can be extremely…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xiaojing Xu , Srinjoy Das , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

A convergence analysis is developed for the regularized Newton method for training neural networks (NNs) in the overparameterized limit. As the number of hidden units tends to infinity, the NN training dynamics converge in probability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Konstantin Riedl , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos , Justin Sirignano

Randomized neural networks (RNN) are a variation of neural networks in which the hidden-layer parameters are fixed to randomly assigned values and the output-layer parameters are obtained by solving a linear system by least squares. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Jingbo Sun , Suchuan Dong , Fei Wang

We consider the approximation rates of shallow neural networks with respect to the variation norm. Upper bounds on these rates have been established for sigmoidal and ReLU activation functions, but it has remained an important open problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-10 Jonathan W. Siegel , Jinchao Xu

Newton's method is a fundamental technique in optimization with quadratic convergence within a neighborhood around the optimum. However reaching this neighborhood is often slow and dominates the computational costs. We exploit two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Hadi Daneshmand , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

We develop a randomized Newton method capable of solving learning problems with huge dimensional feature spaces, which is a common setting in applications such as medical imaging, genomics and seismology. Our method leverages randomized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Robert M. Gower , Dmitry Kovalev , Felix Lieder , Peter Richtárik

For quasi-linear interface problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, the nonconvex objective functional often leads to optimization stagnation in randomized neural network approximations. This paper Proposes a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Siyuan Lang , Zhiyue Zhang

Stochastic gradient descent and other first-order variants, such as Adam and AdaGrad, are commonly used in the field of deep learning due to their computational efficiency and low-storage memory requirements. However, these methods do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Aditya Ranganath , Mukesh Singhal , Roummel Marcia

In this paper, we propose a structure-guided Gauss-Newton (SgGN) method for solving least squares problems using a shallow ReLU neural network. The method effectively takes advantage of both the least squares structure and the neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhiqiang Cai , Tong Ding , Min Liu , Xinyu Liu , Jianlin Xia

In this paper we develop a non-diffusive neural network (NDNN) algorithm for accurately solving weak solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws. The principle is to construct these weak solutions by computing smooth local solutions in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Emmanuel Lorin , Arian Novruzi

In this paper, we establish universal approximation theorems for neural networks applied to general nonlinear ill-posed operator equations. In addition to the approximation error, the measurement error is also taken into account in our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Lan Wang , Qiao Zhu , Bangti Jin , Ye Zhang

Deep Learning has the hierarchical network architecture to represent the complicated features of input patterns. Such architecture is well known to represent higher learning capability compared with some conventional models if the best set…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Takumi Ichimura , Shin Kamada

{A defining characteristic of Newton's method is local superlinear convergence within a neighbourhood of a strict local minimum. However, outside this neighborhood Newton's method can converge slowly or even diverge. A common approach to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Betty Shea , Mark Schmidt

We developed a Nonlinear Level-set Learning (NLL) method for dimensionality reduction in high-dimensional function approximation with small data. This work is motivated by a variety of design tasks in real-world engineering applications,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Guannan Zhang , Jiaxin Zhang , Jacob Hinkle

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to achieve optimal approximation and estimation error rates (in minimax sense) in several function classes. However, previous analyzed optimal CNNs are unrealistically wide and difficult…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-15 Kenta Oono , Taiji Suzuki

We propose a Randomised Subspace Gauss-Newton (R-SGN) algorithm for solving nonlinear least-squares optimization problems, that uses a sketched Jacobian of the residual in the variable domain and solves a reduced linear least-squares on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Coralia Cartis , Jaroslav Fowkes , Zhen Shao

Newton's method is the most widespread high-order method, demanding the gradient and the Hessian of the objective function. However, one of the main disadvantages of Newtons method is its lack of global convergence and high iteration cost.…

Batch Normalization (BN) has become an essential technique in contemporary neural network design, enhancing training stability. Specifically, BN employs centering and scaling operations to standardize features along the batch dimension and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Shaobo Wang , Xiangdong Zhang , Dongrui Liu , Junchi Yan

In this paper, we propose a globally convergent Newton type method to solve $\ell_0$ regularized sparse optimization problem. In fact, a line search strategy is applied to the Newton method to obtain global convergence. The Jacobian matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li

Bayesian approaches for learning deep neural networks (BNN) have been received much attention and successfully applied to various applications. Particularly, BNNs have the merit of having better generalization ability as well as better…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-25 Insung Kong , Dongyoon Yang , Jongjin Lee , Ilsang Ohn , Gyuseung Baek , Yongdai Kim