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Layer normalization (LN) is a ubiquitous technique in deep learning but our theoretical understanding to it remains elusive. This paper investigates a new theoretical direction for LN, regarding to its nonlinearity and representation…
First steps towards a mathematical theory of deep convolutional neural networks for feature extraction were made---for the continuous-time case---in Mallat, 2012, and Wiatowski and B\"olcskei, 2015. This paper considers the discrete case,…
LBP is a successful hand-crafted feature descriptor in computer vision. However, in the deep learning era, deep neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically learn powerful task-aware features that are…
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Determining whether deep neural network (DNN) models can reliably recover target functions at overparameterization is a critical yet complex issue in the theory of deep learning. To advance understanding in this area, we introduce a concept…
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