Weighted variation spaces and approximation by shallow ReLU networks

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Main Authors: DeVore, Ronald, Nowak, Robert D., Parhi, Rahul, Siegel, Jonathan W.
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Published: 2023
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author DeVore, Ronald
Nowak, Robert D.
Parhi, Rahul
Siegel, Jonathan W.
author_facet DeVore, Ronald
Nowak, Robert D.
Parhi, Rahul
Siegel, Jonathan W.
contents We investigate the approximation of functions $f$ on a bounded domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ by the outputs of single-hidden-layer ReLU neural networks of width $n$. This form of nonlinear $n$-term dictionary approximation has been intensely studied since it is the simplest case of neural network approximation (NNA). There are several celebrated approximation results for this form of NNA that introduce novel model classes of functions on $Ω$ whose approximation rates do not grow unbounded with the input dimension. These novel classes include Barron classes, and classes based on sparsity or variation such as the Radon-domain BV classes. The present paper is concerned with the definition of these novel model classes on domains $Ω$. The current definition of these model classes does not depend on the domain $Ω$. A new and more proper definition of model classes on domains is given by introducing the concept of weighted variation spaces. These new model classes are intrinsic to the domain itself. The importance of these new model classes is that they are strictly larger than the classical (domain-independent) classes. Yet, it is shown that they maintain the same NNA rates.
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spellingShingle Weighted variation spaces and approximation by shallow ReLU networks
DeVore, Ronald
Nowak, Robert D.
Parhi, Rahul
Siegel, Jonathan W.
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
We investigate the approximation of functions $f$ on a bounded domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ by the outputs of single-hidden-layer ReLU neural networks of width $n$. This form of nonlinear $n$-term dictionary approximation has been intensely studied since it is the simplest case of neural network approximation (NNA). There are several celebrated approximation results for this form of NNA that introduce novel model classes of functions on $Ω$ whose approximation rates do not grow unbounded with the input dimension. These novel classes include Barron classes, and classes based on sparsity or variation such as the Radon-domain BV classes. The present paper is concerned with the definition of these novel model classes on domains $Ω$. The current definition of these model classes does not depend on the domain $Ω$. A new and more proper definition of model classes on domains is given by introducing the concept of weighted variation spaces. These new model classes are intrinsic to the domain itself. The importance of these new model classes is that they are strictly larger than the classical (domain-independent) classes. Yet, it is shown that they maintain the same NNA rates.
title Weighted variation spaces and approximation by shallow ReLU networks
topic Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15772