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.
By Yitzchak Shmalo
arXiv:2610.22693v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We study uniform approximation of the H\"older ball $\mathcal H_1^s([0,1]^D)$ by fully connected ReLU networks. Except in the one-dimensional Lipschi...
By Thomas Nagler
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 $\SS^d$.
By Tong Mao, Jinchao Xu
A persistent empirical observation is that trained neural networks outperform their neural tangent kernel (NTK) limit on tasks with compositional structure, yet a quantitative account of $\textbf{when}$ and $\textbf{by how much}$ has been lacking. Working on the unit circle, we give such an account through a dichotomy between two complexity measures of the target: its $\textbf{Fourier complexity}$, which controls NTK kernel regression, and its $\textbf{architectural complexity}$, which controls learning over depth-$L$, width-$w$ ReLU networks with the variation norm of the weights bounded by $R$.
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.
By Yanming Lai, Defeng Sun, Yang Wang
arXiv:2607. 06382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A persistent empirical observation is that trained neural networks outperform their neural tangent kernel (NTK) limit on tasks with compositional structure, yet a quantitative account of $\textbf{when}$ and $\textbf{by how much}$ has been lacking.
By Arkaprabha Ganguli, Emil Constantinescu
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.
By Saveliy Baturin
arXiv:2607. 16676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How deep does a graph neural network need to be on a sparse graph?
By Aseem Raj Baranwal
arXiv:2610.02253v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The universal approximation property of dropout neural networks does not by itself describe the network size required for an accurate random realizatio...
By Jia-He Yao
The paper proves that several decision and approximation problems for ReLU neural networks are computationally hard. For any number of layers λ≥2, deciding whether a network’s output is positive (and thus whether it is surjective) is W[ℓ−1]-hard when parameterized by the input dimension d. In particular, for two-layer networks, the related geometric problem of zonotope non‑containment is W[1]-hard in the ambient dimension, and computing or approximating the Lp‑Lipschitz constant is NP‑hard and W[ℓ−1]-hard with respect to d. The results also show that these problems remain hard when parameterized by the number of layers for constant d, implying that naive enumeration algorithms running in n^{(ℓ−1)d}·poly(N) time are essentially optimal under the Exponential Time Hypothesis.
By Vincent Froese, Moritz Grillo, Christoph Hertrich, Moritz Stargalla
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.
By Baicheng Li, Zuowei Shen, Haizhao Yang, Shijun Zhang
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