arXiv:2607. 06781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we investigate the fixed-architecture neural network approximation with explicit parameter bounds and elementary activations.
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:2607. 10589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In contrast to most studies on neural network approximation theory that characterize results through a single parameter, such as the total number of network parameters, \cite{shen2020deep} pioneered the characterization of approximation rates as a joint function of the width parameter $N$ and the depth parameter $L$, thereby granting greater architectural flexibility.
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.
arXiv:2607. 04597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we study the universal approximation property of residual neural networks, and obtain some new results.
arXiv:2606. 16975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we investigate new activation functions for achieving arbitrary-accuracy Sobolev approximation by fixed-size neural networks.
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.
arXiv:2606. 26705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feedforward neural network (NN) expressivity is typically studied by emulating optimal basis-expansion schemes.
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.
arXiv:2607. 21651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We prove that the maximum of $n$ real numbers is exactly representable by a ReLU network with two hidden layers for every $n\le 10$.
arXiv:2606. 08727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many classically studied function classes are known to be approximated optimally by superpositional methods, i.
arXiv:2608. 01357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional approximation theory measures convergence rates in terms of the number of parameters or degrees of freedom.
arXiv:2608. 11479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We establish convergence guarantees of gradient descent for general feedforward neural networks of arbitrary width or depth, with no special requirements on the initialization or dataset.