arXiv:2602. 17596v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study pathwise connectivity of sublevel sets for one-hidden-layer ReLU networks with constrained first-layer weights and an $\ell_1$ penalty on the output layer.
arXiv:2608.23877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We prove a depth hierarchy for ReLU neural networks in which every additional ReLU layer can save exponentially many neurons. For every $\ell\geq 3$, a...
arXiv:2609. 25710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The statistical accuracy of neural networks depends on both their approximation power and the complexity of the class fitted from data.
arXiv:2510. 04060v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We establish two related but logically distinct results for shallow ReLU$^k$ neural networks on the unit sphere $\SS^d$.
arXiv:2609.09130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An input may activate few hidden units even when different inputs collectively use an entire network. We study the statistical complexity of this input...
arXiv:2607. 16676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How deep does a graph neural network need to be on a sparse graph?
An input may activate few hidden units even when different inputs collectively use an entire network. We study the statistical complexity of this input-dependent sparsity in the one-hidden-layer ReLU model of Awasthi et al.
arXiv:2606. 21253v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual learning that is gradient-free, local, online, and append-only is attractive for edge and streaming deployment, but its value is usually argued informally.
arXiv:2609. 20701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study efficient algorithms for realizing the first-order oracle complexity of optimization of $G$-Lipschitz convex functions with respect to the $\ell_{q}$-norm over an $\ell_{p}$-ball of radius $R$, where $1\leq p,q\leq \infty$.
arXiv:2605. 01928v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We optimize losses that jump: spiking thresholds, quantized layers, and discrete routing put jumps in the forward pass, where backpropagation does not apply.
arXiv:2607. 07778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bubeck, Li and Nagaraj conjectured that, for generic data, any two-layer neural network with $m$ neurons that fits $n$ noisy labels must have Lipschitz constant at least of order $\sqrt{n/m}$, with no restriction on the size of the weights.
We study efficient algorithms for realizing the first-order oracle complexity of optimization of $G$-Lipschitz convex functions with respect to the $\ell_{q}$-norm over an $\ell_{p}$-ball of radius $R$, where $1\leq p,q\leq \infty$. For $p<q$, we obtain error $\widetilde{O}_{p,q}(GR/T^{1/p-(1/q-1/2)_{+}})$ after $T$ oracle queries, efficiently realizing the nearly optimal rates of (MBG+26), thereby resolving the nonsmooth end of the COLT 2015 open problem (Guz15b).
The paper investigates restricted eigenvalue (RE) bounds for norm‑regularized estimators under heavy‑tailed designs. It shows that the previously conjectured sample‑size law based on Gaussian width fails for heavy‑tailed measurements, due to a phenomenon called simultaneous threshold occupancy. The authors provide explicit counterexamples, derive worst‑case sample‑complexity bounds, and compare the behavior of heavy‑tailed versus Gaussian designs on constant‑width polyhedral descent cones.