arXiv Machine Learning

A Statistical Difference between Single-Layer Learning and Hierarchical Learning in Wide Neural Networks

arXiv:2607. 23397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical neural networks are widely used in artificial intelligence, yet their mathematical properties remain incompletely understood.

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Jun 22

Sublinearly Structured Deep Neural Networks Achieve Feature Learning Consistency for Compositional Functions

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?

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Minimax-Optimal Generalization Bounds for Smooth Deep Neural Networks Trained by (Stochastic) Gradient Descent

arXiv:2606. 06772v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Characterizing the optimization dynamics and statistical performance of over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) remains a central challenge in understanding the remarkable success of deep learning.

By Junyu Zhou, Puyu Wang, Dennis Wagner, Yunwen Lei, Marius Kloft, Yiming Ying
arXiv AI
Jul 9

Understanding Two-Layer Neural Networks with Smooth Activation Functions

arXiv:2507. 14177v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper aims to understand the training solution, which is obtained by the back-propagation algorithm, of two-layer neural networks whose hidden layer is composed of the units with smooth activation functions, including the usual sigmoid type most commonly used before the advent of ReLUs.

By Changcun Huang