Memory capacity of two layer neural networks with smooth activations

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Auteurs principaux: Madden, Liam, Thrampoulidis, Christos
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author Madden, Liam
Thrampoulidis, Christos
author_facet Madden, Liam
Thrampoulidis, Christos
contents Determining the memory capacity of two layer neural networks with $m$ hidden neurons and input dimension $d$ (i.e., $md+2m$ total trainable parameters), which refers to the largest size of general data the network can memorize, is a fundamental machine learning question. For activations that are real analytic at a point and, if restricting to a polynomial there, have sufficiently high degree, we establish a lower bound of $\lfloor md/2\rfloor$ and optimality up to a factor of approximately $2$. All practical activations, such as sigmoids, Heaviside, and the rectified linear unit (ReLU), are real analytic at a point. Furthermore, the degree condition is mild, requiring, for example, that $\binom{k+d-1}{d-1}\ge n$ if the activation is $x^k$. Analogous prior results were limited to Heaviside and ReLU activations -- our result covers almost everything else. In order to analyze general activations, we derive the precise generic rank of the network's Jacobian, which can be written in terms of Hadamard powers and the Khatri-Rao product. Our analysis extends classical linear algebraic facts about the rank of Hadamard powers. Overall, our approach differs from prior works on memory capacity and holds promise for extending to deeper models and other architectures.
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spellingShingle Memory capacity of two layer neural networks with smooth activations
Madden, Liam
Thrampoulidis, Christos
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
15A03, 26B10
Determining the memory capacity of two layer neural networks with $m$ hidden neurons and input dimension $d$ (i.e., $md+2m$ total trainable parameters), which refers to the largest size of general data the network can memorize, is a fundamental machine learning question. For activations that are real analytic at a point and, if restricting to a polynomial there, have sufficiently high degree, we establish a lower bound of $\lfloor md/2\rfloor$ and optimality up to a factor of approximately $2$. All practical activations, such as sigmoids, Heaviside, and the rectified linear unit (ReLU), are real analytic at a point. Furthermore, the degree condition is mild, requiring, for example, that $\binom{k+d-1}{d-1}\ge n$ if the activation is $x^k$. Analogous prior results were limited to Heaviside and ReLU activations -- our result covers almost everything else. In order to analyze general activations, we derive the precise generic rank of the network's Jacobian, which can be written in terms of Hadamard powers and the Khatri-Rao product. Our analysis extends classical linear algebraic facts about the rank of Hadamard powers. Overall, our approach differs from prior works on memory capacity and holds promise for extending to deeper models and other architectures.
title Memory capacity of two layer neural networks with smooth activations
topic Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
15A03, 26B10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02001