In this paper, we introduce transformations of deep rectifier networks, enabling the conversion of deep rectifier networks into shallow rectifier networks. We subsequently prove that any rectifier net of any depth can be represented by a maximum of a number of functions that can be realized by a shallow network with a …
This paper considers the power of deep neural networks (deep nets for short) in realizing data features. Based on refined covering number estimates, we find that, to realize some complex data features, deep nets can improve the performances of shallow neural networks (shallow nets for short) without requiring additiona…
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.
New bound on neural nets complexity for approximating functions.
problem Approximating continuous functions with shallow neural networks.
method Inspired by Stone-Weierstrass theorem, constructive proof.
result General upper bound on neuron count for accuracy.
The study examines how shallow neural nets converge to training samples or manifold points during diffusion.
problem Understanding when and how shallow neural nets converge to training samples or manifold points during diffusion.
method Analysis of shallow ReLU neural network denoisers trained with minimal ℓ2 norm, comparing score flow and diffusion flow. result Probability flow converges to training points, sums of training points, or manifold points, depending on the diffusion time scheduler.
Yes, they do. This paper provides the first empirical demonstration that deep convolutional models really need to be both deep and convolutional, even when trained with methods such as distillation that allow small or shallow models of high accuracy to be trained. Although previous research showed that shallow feed-for…
Proposes a learning rate method for shallow nets based on gradient Lipschitz constant.
problem Finding optimal learning rates for shallow neural networks.
method Associates learning rate with gradient Lipschitz constant and proposes a search algorithm.
result The proposed method significantly outperforms existing tuning methods.
Learning to Optimize is a recently proposed framework for learning optimization algorithms using reinforcement learning. In this paper, we explore learning an optimization algorithm for training shallow neural nets. Such high-dimensional stochastic optimization problems present interesting challenges for existing reinf…
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.
PLN-Nets with two linear layers and parallel LN achieve universal approximation.
problem Limitations of standard neural network architectures in universal approximation.
method Introduced PLN-Nets combining two linear layers with parallel LN.
result PLN-Nets achieve universal approximation, while standard LN has limited power.
Theory explains how deep nets learn features from data.
problem Understanding how deep neural networks learn features from data.
method Developed a noise-nonlinearity phase diagram and a mechanical theory.
result Links feature learning across layers to generalization.
Gradient descent struggles to learn equivariant neural networks, even with symmetries.
problem Learning equivariant neural networks via gradient descent is hard.
method Lower bounds for various equivariant neural network classes.
result Gradient descent struggles to learn equivariant neural networks, even with symmetries.
New stability bounds for GD in overparameterised shallow nets without NTK assumptions.
problem Generalisation and excess risk bounds for shallow neural networks.
method Oracle inequalities and stability analysis of GD without kernelisation.
result Oracle type bounds reveal GD's generalisation is controlled by an interpolating network with shortest GD path.
GD-trained shallow ReLU nets learn Lipschitz functions with noise.
problem Learning Lipschitz functions with additive noise in overparameterized neural networks.
method Gradient Descent (GD) with early stopping, focusing on the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK).
result Early-stopped GD achieves minimax optimal rates for learning Lipschitz functions.
GD with early stopping trains shallow neural nets for nonparametric regression robustly.
problem Learning Lipschitz regression functions with noisy labels.
method Overparameterized shallow neural networks trained by GD with early stopping.
result Optimal rates of convergence for nonparametric regression.
RDL-Net improves speech enhancement with fewer parameters and better performance.
problem Improving speech enhancement with fewer parameters and better performance.
method Proposes RDL-Net, a CNN combining residual and dense aggregations without over-allocating parameters.
result RDL-Net achieves higher speech enhancement performance with fewer parameters and lower computational requirements.
Sample variance decay is shown in deep ReLU networks, impacting training dynamics.
problem Sample variance decay in deep ReLU networks during training.
method Decomposed total variance into sample variance and network-averaged sum of sample mean and variance.
result Sample variance decays in later layers of deep ReLU networks, impacting training dynamics.
Deep Bayesian neural nets can use simpler weight approximations without sacrificing performance.
problem The need for complex weight posterior approximations in deep Bayesian neural networks.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of mean-field variational inference in deep networks.
result Mean-field variational weight posteriors in deep networks can induce similar function-space distributions as complex approximations in shallower networks.
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.
DS2CF-Net learns hierarchical representations with deep coupled factorization and enriched prior.
problem Learning deep hierarchical representations from data.
method Dual-constrained Deep Semi-Supervised Coupled Factorization Network (DS2CF-Net) with enriched prior.
result DS2CF-Net achieves state-of-the-art performance in representation learning and clustering.
A hybrid model combines physics and machine learning to predict unknown processes in numerical models.
problem Unknown or poorly represented processes in numerical models of the Earth System.
method Combining a physical model with a neural-net trained on observations.
result The hybrid model accurately predicts unknown processes with high correlation (close to 1).
Neural Additive Models combine neural nets with interpretable models for high stakes tasks.
problem Inability to understand how neural networks make decisions.
method Combines neural nets with generalized additive models to create Neural Additive Models (NAMs).
result NAMs are more accurate than intelligible models and as accurate as state-of-the-art generalized additive models.
A neural network, IHT-Net, improves DOA estimation with sparse arrays.
problem Single-snapshot DOA estimation with sparse arrays in dynamic settings.
method IHT-inspired neural network with recurrent neural network and autoencoders.
result IHT-Net achieves faster convergence and higher accuracy in DOA estimation.
Deep neural network (DNN) based approaches hold significant potential for reinforcement learning (RL) and have already shown remarkable gains over state-of-art methods in a number of applications. The effectiveness of DNN methods can be attributed to leveraging the abundance of supervised data to learn value functions,…
Shallow neural networks can represent polynomials efficiently.
problem Representing polynomials using shallow neural networks.
method Using shallow neural networks of width 2(R+d)d to represent d-variate polynomials of degree R. result Derives minimax optimal convergence rate for shallow networks to unknown univariate regression functions.
User response prediction is a crucial component for personalized information retrieval and filtering scenarios, such as recommender system and web search. The data in user response prediction is mostly in a multi-field categorical format and transformed into sparse representations via one-hot encoding. Due to the spars…
Wide and shallow networks approximate convex functions well.
problem Understanding why wide and shallow neural networks perform well.
method Analyzing the epigraph of the input-output map of shallow and wide neural networks.
result The epigraph of the input-output map approximates a convex function.
In this paper we investigate the family of functions representable by deep neural networks (DNN) with rectified linear units (ReLU). We give an algorithm to train a ReLU DNN with one hidden layer to *global optimality* with runtime polynomial in the data size albeit exponential in the input dimension. Further, we impro…
Optimal rates for shallow ReLU networks in nonparametric regression.
problem Approximating smooth and non-smooth functions with shallow ReLU networks.
method Analysis of shallow ReLUk neural networks, using variation norms and deep learning theory. result Optimal approximation rates for shallow ReLU networks in nonparametric regression.
The study compares shallow and deep learning methods for text classification.
problem High-dimensional, sparse data from customer calls.
method Comparative evaluation of shallow, deep, and ensemble methods.
result Ensemble methods improve classification accuracy.
This paper reports the performances of shallow word-level convolutional neural networks (CNN), our earlier work (2015), on the eight datasets with relatively large training data that were used for testing the very deep character-level CNN in Conneau et al. (2016). Our findings are as follows. The shallow word-level CNN…
Deep ReLU networks can be simplified to a three-layer model.
problem Understanding the behavior of deep neural networks.
method Constructive proof and algorithm to transform deep networks into shallow ones.
result Deep ReLU networks can be represented by a simpler three-layer structure.
In this paper we study the problem of learning Rectified Linear Units (ReLUs) which are functions of the form max(0,<w,x>) with w denoting the weight vector. We study this problem in the high-dimensional regime where the number of observations are fewer than the dimension of the weight vector. We assume that the we…
Recent theoretical work has demonstrated that deep neural networks have superior performance over shallow networks, but their training is more difficult, e.g., they suffer from the vanishing gradient problem. This problem can be typically resolved by the rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation. However, here we show th…
Deep neural networks can learn smooth functions without parameters.
problem Learning smooth functions from shallow ReLU neural networks.
method Using over-parameterized shallow ReLU neural networks with norm constraints.
result Least squares estimators based on shallow neural networks are minimax optimal.
CHOOSE enhances shallow Transformers for wireless symbol detection.
problem Improving wireless symbol detection with shallow Transformers.
method Introducing autoregressive latent reasoning steps within hidden space.
result Lightweight Transformers achieve comparable performance to deep models.
This paper shows linear over-parametrization suffices for shallow neural networks to fit training data.
problem Training shallow neural networks with optimal over-parametrization.
method Used a simple variant of stochastic gradient descent.
result Linear over-parametrization is sufficient for shallow neural networks to fit training data.
New bounds for shallow neural networks with deterministic parameters.
problem Developing generalisation bounds for shallow neural networks.
method PAC-Bayesian theory applied to shallow neural networks with deterministic parameters.
result Empirical non-vacuous bounds for shallow neural networks trained with vanilla SGD.
Sharp lower bounds on shallow neural networks' approximation rates are derived.
problem The efficiency of shallow neural networks in approximating functions.
method Lower bounding the L2-metric entropy and Kolmogorov n-widths of the convex hull of neural network basis functions. result Sharp lower bounds on the approximation rates for shallow neural networks are provided.
Paper proves bounds for shallow networks without dimensionality issues.
problem Avoiding curse of dimensionality and estimating approximation degree.
method Abstract theorem for G-networks on compact metric measure spaces. result Dimension independent bounds for approximation by shallow networks.
Study shows shallow ReLU networks struggle with high-dimensional Lipschitz functions.
problem Expressing high-dimensional Lipschitz functions with shallow ReLU networks.
method Established lower bounds on shallow network complexity for polynomial approximation.
result Shallow ReLU networks suffer from the curse of dimensionality for Lipschitz functions.
This paper provides a theoretical justification of the superior classification performance of deep rectifier networks over shallow rectifier networks from the geometrical perspective of piecewise linear (PWL) classifier boundaries. We show that, for a given threshold on the approximation error, the required number of b…
Paper tackles invariance of demodulation in shallow water acoustic communications.
problem Frequency-selective signal distortion (Doppler effect) in shallow water environments.
method Developed ML-based demodulation methods using DBN-NN and DBN-CNN.
result Demonstrated invariance of the proposed method to Doppler effect with 2dB error margin.
Proves existence of optimal shallow neural networks with ReLU activation.
problem Proving the existence of optimal shallow feedforward networks with ReLU activation.
method Proves existence of global minima in the loss landscape for continuous target functions using shallow feedforward neural networks with ReLU activation.
result Existence of global minima in the loss landscape for shallow feedforward networks with ReLU activation.
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.
A new algorithm for learning shallow neural networks with infinite width.
problem Learning shallow over-parameterized neural networks.
method Sinkhorn proximal algorithm approximating mean field learning dynamics.
result The algorithm performs gradient descent of the free energy associated with the risk functional.
Study shows limits on deep and shallow neural networks for approximating compact sets.
problem Understanding the limitations of deep and shallow neural networks in approximating compact sets.
method Proved Carl's type inequalities for approximation error, using Lipschitz widths.
result Lower bounds on approximation error for neural network outputs.
Paper studies shallow ReLU networks' approximation rates for Hölder functions.
problem Understanding shallow ReLU networks' efficiency in approximating Hölder functions.
method Analyzes rates of uniform approximation by ReLU shallow neural networks with m hidden neurons. result Shows ReLU shallow neural networks can uniformly approximate Hölder functions with rates close to optimal.