Population Risk Bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Trained by DP-SGD with Correlated Noise

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Puyu, Schuchardt, Jan, Kalinin, Nikita, Zhou, Junyu, Fellenz, Sophie, Lampert, Christoph, Kloft, Marius
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author Wang, Puyu
Schuchardt, Jan
Kalinin, Nikita
Zhou, Junyu
Fellenz, Sophie
Lampert, Christoph
Kloft, Marius
author_facet Wang, Puyu
Schuchardt, Jan
Kalinin, Nikita
Zhou, Junyu
Fellenz, Sophie
Lampert, Christoph
Kloft, Marius
contents We establish the first population risk bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) trained by mini-batch SGD with gradient clipping, covering non-private SGD as well as differentially private SGD (DP-SGD) with Gaussian perturbations that interpolate between independent and temporally correlated noise. This setting is substantially closer to practice than prior KAN theory along two axes: training is by mini-batch SGD, the standard recipe for modern networks, rather than full-batch gradient descent (GD); and correlated-noise mechanisms have empirically shown a more favorable privacy-utility tradeoff than independent-noise mechanisms. Our results cover the corresponding full-batch GD and independent-noise DP-GD results for KANs by Wang et al. (2026), while yielding sharper fixed-second-layer specializations. The technical core is a new analysis route for correlated-noise DP training in the non-convex regime. Temporal dependence breaks the conditional-centering structure underlying standard one-step SGD arguments, and the projection step obstructs the exact cancellation structure of correlated perturbations. We address these difficulties through an auxiliary unprojected dynamics, a shifted iterate that absorbs the current noise perturbation, and a high-probability bootstrap certifying projection inactivity. Combining this optimization analysis with a stability-based generalization argument yields the stated population risk bounds. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first optimization and population risk analysis of a correlated-noise mechanism for DP training beyond convex learning, in particular for neural networks.
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spellingShingle Population Risk Bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Trained by DP-SGD with Correlated Noise
Wang, Puyu
Schuchardt, Jan
Kalinin, Nikita
Zhou, Junyu
Fellenz, Sophie
Lampert, Christoph
Kloft, Marius
Machine Learning
We establish the first population risk bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) trained by mini-batch SGD with gradient clipping, covering non-private SGD as well as differentially private SGD (DP-SGD) with Gaussian perturbations that interpolate between independent and temporally correlated noise. This setting is substantially closer to practice than prior KAN theory along two axes: training is by mini-batch SGD, the standard recipe for modern networks, rather than full-batch gradient descent (GD); and correlated-noise mechanisms have empirically shown a more favorable privacy-utility tradeoff than independent-noise mechanisms. Our results cover the corresponding full-batch GD and independent-noise DP-GD results for KANs by Wang et al. (2026), while yielding sharper fixed-second-layer specializations. The technical core is a new analysis route for correlated-noise DP training in the non-convex regime. Temporal dependence breaks the conditional-centering structure underlying standard one-step SGD arguments, and the projection step obstructs the exact cancellation structure of correlated perturbations. We address these difficulties through an auxiliary unprojected dynamics, a shifted iterate that absorbs the current noise perturbation, and a high-probability bootstrap certifying projection inactivity. Combining this optimization analysis with a stability-based generalization argument yields the stated population risk bounds. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first optimization and population risk analysis of a correlated-noise mechanism for DP training beyond convex learning, in particular for neural networks.
title Population Risk Bounds for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Trained by DP-SGD with Correlated Noise
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12648