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The paper analyzes how different regularizers affect neural network complexity under input noise.

problem Understanding the impact of input noise on neural network complexity and regularization.
method Analysis of various regularization schemes (L2, DARC1, Jacobian, Spectral normalization) on neural network complexity under Gaussian input noise.
result Spectral normalization achieves the highest test set accuracies for both shallow and deep architectures.

This paper classifies GG-invariant shallow neural networks.

problem Designing optimal GG-invariant neural architectures for GG-invariant target functions.
method Proving theorems about the classification and morphisms of GG-invariant single-hidden-layer neural networks.
result Classification of GG-invariant shallow neural networks and characterization of morphisms.

NAS favors wide and shallow cell structures, leading to fast convergence but not necessarily better generalization.

problem Understanding and improving the architectures generated by NAS algorithms.
method Empirical and theoretical study of existing NAS algorithms (DARTS, ENAS) and their architectures.
result Existing NAS algorithms favor wide and shallow cell structures, leading to fast convergence but not necessarily better generalization.

Deep ReLU networks approximate as well as shallow ones in kernel regimes.

problem Understanding the limitations of kernel methods for deep ReLU networks.
method Characterizing eigenvalue decays of kernels derived from deep ReLU networks.
result Deep ReLU networks and shallow two-layer networks have equivalent approximation properties in kernel regimes.

It is well established that neural networks with deep architectures perform better than shallow networks for many tasks in machine learning. In statistical physics, while there has been recent interest in representing physical data with generative modelling, the focus has been on shallow neural networks. A natural ques…

2017-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

PathCapsNet improves CapsNet by reducing parameters and enhancing performance.

problem Limitations of CapsNet, including excessive parameters and shallow architecture.
method Introducing a deep parallel multi-path version of CapsNet, incorporating depth, max-pooling, regularization, and new routing techniques.
result Better or comparable results to CapsNet with significantly reduced parameter count.

New deep ESN architectures improve memory capacity and prediction accuracy.

problem Improving memory capacity and prediction accuracy of ESNs.
method Two new deep ESN architectures: parallel and series. Analysis of memory capacity and prediction accuracy.
result Parallel deep ESNs have equivalent memory capacity to shallow ESNs, while series deep ESNs have smaller memory capacity.

We provide a series of results for unsupervised learning with autoencoders. Specifically, we study shallow two-layer autoencoder architectures with shared weights. We focus on three generative models for data that are common in statistical machine learning: (i) the mixture-of-gaussians model, (ii) the sparse coding mod…

2018-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗

It has long been conjectured that hypotheses spaces suitable for data that is compositional in nature, such as text or images, may be more efficiently represented with deep hierarchical networks than with shallow ones. Despite the vast empirical evidence supporting this belief, theoretical justifications to date are li…

2015-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient-trained shallow networks can generalize well but are vulnerable to small-radius adversarial attacks.

problem Adversarial robustness of gradient-trained shallow networks.
method Analysis of neuron alignment and polynomial ReLU activation.
result Gradient-trained shallow networks with polynomial ReLU activation are robust to small-radius adversarial attacks.

Shallow neural nets classify objects perfectly if their distribution is linearly separable.

problem Designing efficient neural networks for classification.
method Constructed shallow sigmoid-type neural networks.
result Achieves 100% accuracy for datasets following a linear separability condition.

Study shows overparameterization helps shallow neural networks recover signals in high dimensions.

problem Signal recovery in shallow neural networks with overparameterization.
method Gradient flow on population risk, Gaussian distribution assumption, high-dimensional limit analysis.
result Minimal overparameterization is sufficient for strong recovery of signals.

SCAN divides deep neural networks into shallow classifiers for efficient deployment.

problem Explosive growth in storage and computation limits deep neural networks on edge devices.
method SCAN divides networks into shallow classifiers, uses attention modules and knowledge distillation, and employs a threshold-controlled scalable inference mechanism.
result SCAN achieves significant performance gain on CIFAR100 and ImageNet without hyper-parameter adjustments.

Theory explains why DARTS favors deep architectures over shallow ones.

problem DARTS selects architectures with dominated skip connections, leading to performance degradation.
method Theoretical analysis of operations' effects on network optimization; introduces sparse binary gates and path-depth-wise regularization.
result Theoretical proof that architectures with more skip connections converge faster.

Deep nets improve function approximation and learning in high dimensions.

problem Designing neural networks for rotation-invariant function approximation.
method Developed deep neural networks with multiple hidden layers for radial function approximation.
result Deep nets achieve near-optimal function approximation and learning rates not possible by shallow nets.

Gradient descent converges to global optima in shallow overparameterized networks.

problem Understanding the level of overparameterization required for gradient descent to converge to a global optimum in shallow neural networks.
method Stochastic gradient descent starting from random initialization, focusing on shallow neural nets and smooth activations.
result Gradient descent converges geometrically to a nearby global optima as soon as the square-root of the number of parameters exceeds the size of the training data.

HighwayGraph models long-distance node relations in GNNs with improved performance.

problem Limited-layer information propagation in GNNs hinders long-distance node relation modeling.
method Proposes two solutions: implicit and explicit modeling of long-distance node relations using shallow GNN architectures and a self-training framework.
result HighwayGraph achieves consistent and significant improvements over four GNNs on three benchmark datasets.

Convolutional networks outperform shallow classifiers on certain tasks due to hierarchical structure.

problem Understanding why convolutional networks outperform shallow classifiers on specific tasks.
method Approximation theory, visual tasks with deterministic scrambling, and network performance evaluation.
result Hierarchical structure is crucial for convolutional networks' performance on certain tasks, but not all.

This work explains neural collapse in shallow neural networks and its impact on generalization.

problem Understanding neural collapse in shallow neural networks and its effect on generalization.
method Analysis of two and three-layer ReLU neural networks, focusing on data dimension, sample size, and signal-to-noise ratio.
result Neural collapse occurs in shallow ReLU networks under certain conditions related to data properties and network architecture.

A new method reduces computational cost for gene expression inference in large microarray data sets.

problem Efficiently predicting gene expression in large datasets with limited resources.
method Adaptive Lipschitz constant inspired learning rate, random sub-sampling, and A-ReLU activation function.
result Remarkable improvement in saving computational cost while maintaining prediction accuracy.

Conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims at finding a single architecture that achieves the best performance, which usually optimizes task related learning objectives such as accuracy. However, a single architecture may not be representative enough for the whole dataset with high diversity and variety. Intuit…

2018-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Shallow diffusion models learn hidden low-dimensional structures effectively.

problem Learning from high-dimensional signals like images and video.
method Analysis of shallow diffusion models over the Barron space of single layer neural networks.
result Shallow diffusion models can adapt to simple low-dimensional structures, overcoming the curse of dimensionality.

Expressive efficiency refers to the relation between two architectures A and B, whereby any function realized by B could be replicated by A, but there exists functions realized by A, which cannot be replicated by B unless its size grows significantly larger. For example, it is known that deep networks are exponentially…

2017-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep weight factorization improves neural network training through smooth optimization of sparse penalties.

problem Challenges in applying sparse regularization in neural networks due to non-differentiability of penalties.
method Introduces deep weight factorization, decomposing weights into multiple factors for smooth optimization of L1L_1-penalized networks.
result Deep weight factorization outperforms shallow factorization and pruning methods consistently across various architectures and datasets.

We consider deep neural networks, in which the output of each node is a quadratic function of its inputs. Similar to other deep architectures, these networks can compactly represent any function on a finite training set. The main goal of this paper is the derivation of an efficient layer-by-layer algorithm for training…

2013-04-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Relational Networks (RN) as introduced by Santoro et al. (2017) have demonstrated strong relational reasoning capabilities with a rather shallow architecture. Its single-layer design, however, only considers pairs of information objects, making it unsuitable for problems requiring reasoning across a higher number of fa…

2018-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces a new anomaly detection framework combining density estimation and deep learning.

problem Detecting anomalies in data with varying dimensions.
method Two versions: shallow approach using adaptive Fourier features and density matrices; deep approach using autoencoder.
result Both methods achieve comparable or superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.

RBMs learn archetypes when trained on blurred copies of them, revealing a critical sample size.

problem Determining the critical sample size for RBMs to learn archetypes.
method Formal equivalence between RBMs and Hopfield networks, statistical-mechanics of disordered systems, Monte Carlo simulations.
result A phase diagram highlights regions where learning can be accomplished.

Develops vector-valued RKBS for neural networks and operators.

problem Understanding function spaces of Rd\mathbb{R}^d-valued neural networks and neural operators.
method Defines and constructs vector-valued RKBS (vv-RKBS) without restrictive assumptions.
result Establishes Representer Theorem for neural architectures.

MemNet optimizes neural architectures for memory efficiency.

problem Memory constraints in mobile devices limit the use of large neural networks.
method Augment-trim learning with memory consumption ranking score.
result MemNet finds architectures with 24.17% less memory usage compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Shallow supervised 1-hidden layer neural networks have a number of favorable properties that make them easier to interpret, analyze, and optimize than their deep counterparts, but lack their representational power. Here we use 1-hidden layer learning problems to sequentially build deep networks layer by layer, which ca…

2018-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The simplicity of gradient descent (GD) made it the default method for training ever-deeper and complex neural networks. Both loss functions and architectures are often explicitly tuned to be amenable to this basic local optimization. In the context of weakly-supervised CNN segmentation, we demonstrate a well-motivated…

2018-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Shallow neural networks can represent polynomials efficiently.

problem Representing polynomials using shallow neural networks.
method Using shallow neural networks of width 2(R+d)d2(R+d)^d to represent dd-variate polynomials of degree RR.
result Derives minimax optimal convergence rate for shallow networks to unknown univariate regression functions.

We consider the problem of training generative models with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). Although GANs can accurately model complex distributions, they are known to be difficult to train due to instabilities caused by a difficult minimax optimization problem. In this paper, we view the problem of training GAN…

2017-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

BNAS improves neural architecture search with a scalable, fast, and efficient approach.

problem Efficiently searching for optimal neural architectures with high performance and low training time.
method Designing a broad scalable architecture (BCNN) with reinforcement learning and parameter sharing, and developing two variants.
result Significantly reduces training time and achieves state-of-the-art performance on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet.