The recently introduced EML (Exp-Minus-Log) function acts as continuous analogue of NAND gates, providing a compositional building block capable of representing elementary functions. In this work, we study the expressive power of tree-structured compositions of EML functions.
arXiv:2606. 20325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical approximation theorems ask for a new neural network whenever the target accuracy is improved.
By Valentin Abadie, Clemens Hutter, Helmut B\"olcskei
arXiv:2505. 09710v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate deep morphological neural networks (DMNNs), studying how changes in algebraic structure affect the expressivity and trainability of deep architectures.
By Konstantinos Fotopoulos, Petros Maragos
arXiv:2603. 23878v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The parameterized CROWN analysis, a.
By Henry LeCates, Haoze Wu
arXiv:2607. 01311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning has outgrown any single mathematical explanation.
By Zhilin Zhao
Over the past decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success on complex machine-learning tasks, yet the theoretical foundations of their performance remain incomplete. From a statistical viewpoint, a natural question is: can DNNs attain feature-learning and prediction consistency comparable to that of classical models?
In this work, we investigate the fixed-architecture neural network approximation with explicit parameter bounds and elementary activations. While prior work demonstrated super-expressive approximation using fixed-size networks, they lack quantitative and non-asymptotic characterizations of parameter magnitude with respect to the approximation error.
arXiv:2606. 09820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We generalize the universal approximation theorem for functional input neural networks (FNN) to differentiable maps by including the approximation of the derivatives.
By Philipp Schmocker, Josef Teichmann
arXiv:2606. 21497v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern deep neural networks are trained using error backpropagation, which requires sequential forward and backward computations across network layers.
By Neeraj Mohan Sushma, Aditya Nagarsekar, Cabrel Teguemne Fokam, Robin Schiewer, Amit Kumar Pal, Anand Subramoney, David Kappel
arXiv:2604. 20219v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Depth is widely viewed as a central contributor to the success of deep neural networks, whereas standard neural network approximation theory typically provides guarantees only for the final output and leaves the role of intermediate layers largely unclear.
By Shijun Zhang, Zuowei Shen, Yuesheng Xu
arXiv:2607. 23397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical neural networks are widely used in artificial intelligence, yet their mathematical properties remain incompletely understood.
By Sumio Watanabe
arXiv:2602. 12390v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study neural networks with trainable low-degree rational activation functions and show that they are more expressive and parameter-efficient than modern piecewise-linear and smooth activations such as ELU, LeakyReLU, LogSigmoid, PReLU, ReLU, SELU, CELU, Sigmoid, SiLU, Mish, Softplus, Tanh, Softmin, Softmax, and LogSoftmax.
By Maosen Tang, Alex Townsend