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Analogical reasoning is a powerful inductive mechanism, widely used in human cognition and increasingly applied in artificial intelligence. Formal frameworks for analogical inference have been developed for Boolean domains, where inference…

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Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Gao Huang , Zhuang Liu , Geoff Pleiss , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance on a variety of tasks, but their brittleness to distributional shifts remains a significant barrier to real-world deployment. In this paper, we propose a framework to analyse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Divij Khaitan , Subhashis Banerjee

Neural networks and rational functions efficiently approximate each other. In more detail, it is shown here that for any ReLU network, there exists a rational function of degree $O(\text{polylog}(1/\epsilon))$ which is $\epsilon$-close, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Matus Telgarsky

This article introduces strongly proximal continuous (s.p.c.) functions, strong proximal equivalence (s.p.e.) and strong connectedness. A main result is that if topological spaces $X,Y$ are endowed with compatible strong proximities and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-13 J. F. Peters , C. Guadagni

Link prediction, a fundamental task on graphs, has proven indispensable in various applications, e.g., friend recommendation, protein analysis, and drug interaction prediction. However, since datasets span a multitude of domains, they could…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Haitao Mao , Juanhui Li , Harry Shomer , Bingheng Li , Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

We show that deep networks are better than shallow networks at approximating functions that can be expressed as a composition of functions described by a directed acyclic graph, because the deep networks can be designed to have the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 H. N. Mhaskar , T. Poggio

Understanding functional associations among genes discovered in sequencing projects is a key issue in post-genomic biology. However, reliable interpretation of the protein interaction data has been difficult. In this work, we show that if…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Manoj Pratim Samanta , Shoudan Liang

In principle, the rules of links formation of a network model can be considered as a kind of link prediction algorithm. By revisiting the preferential attachment mechanism for generating a scale-free network, here we propose a class of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-09 Ke Hu , Ju Xiang , Wanchun Yang , Xiaoke Xu , Yi Tang

Functional networks, i.e. networks representing dynamic relationships between the components of a complex system, have been instrumental for our understanding of, among others, the human brain. Due to limited data availability, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-24 Massimiliano Zanin

Single hidden layer feedforward neural networks can represent multivariate functions that are sums of ridge functions. These ridge functions are defined via an activation function and customizable weights. The paper deals with best…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Steffen Goebbels

Complex networks encountered in biology are often characterized by significant structural diversity. Whether it be differences in the three-dimensional structure of allosteric proteins, or the variation among the micro-scale structures of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-19 Jason W. Rocks , Andrea J. Liu , Eleni Katifori

This paper provides a theoretical and computational justification of the long held claim that of the similarity of the probit and logit link functions often used in binary classification. Despite this widespread recognition of the strong…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-18 Necla Gunduz , Ernest Fokoue

It is shown that for deep neural networks, a single wide layer of width $N+1$ ($N$ being the number of training samples) suffices to prove the connectivity of sublevel sets of the training loss function. In the two-layer setting, the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Quynh Nguyen

By universal formulas we understand parameterized analytic expressions that have a fixed complexity, but nevertheless can approximate any continuous function on a compact set. There exist various examples of such formulas, including some in…

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A key ingredient of current models proposed to capture the topological evolution of complex networks is the hypothesis that highly connected nodes increase their connectivity faster than their less connected peers, a phenomenon called…

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Functional connectivity refers to the temporal statistical relationship between spatially distinct brain regions and is usually inferred from the time series coherence/correlation in brain activity between regions of interest. In human…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-02 Shaurabh Nandy , Richard M. Golden

In the realizable online setting, a learner is tasked with making predictions for a stream of instances, where the correct answer is revealed after each prediction. A learning rule is online consistent if its mistake rate eventually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Geelon So

The universal approximation theorem, in one of its most general versions, says that if we consider only continuous activation functions $\sigma$, then a standard feedforward neural network with one hidden layer is able to approximate any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Kai Fong Ernest Chong

Neural networks are widely used to approximate unknown functions in control. A common neural network architecture uses a single hidden layer (i.e. a shallow network), in which the input parameters are fixed in advance and only the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Andrew Lamperski , Siddharth Salapaka