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Publications (70)

math.OC2026

Robust and Fast Training via Per-Sample Clipping

Davide Nobile, Philipp Grohs

We propose a robust gradient estimator based on per-sample gradient clipping and analyze its properties both theoretically and empirically. We show that the resulting method, per-s…

math.FA2017

Stable Phase Retrieval in Infinite Dimensions

Rima Alaifari, Ingrid Daubechies, Philipp Grohs +1

The problem of phase retrieval is to determine a signal , with a Hilbert space, from intensity measurements , where $F(ω):=\langle f , φ_…

physics.comp-ph2025

Accurate Ab-initio Neural-network Solutions to Large-Scale Electronic Structure Problems

Michael Scherbela, Nicholas Gao, Philipp Grohs +1

We present finite-range embeddings (FiRE), a novel wave function ansatz for accurate large-scale ab-initio electronic structure calculations. Compared to contemporary neural-networ…

math.FA2025

From completeness of discrete translates to phaseless sampling of the short-time Fourier transform

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Liehr, Irina Shafkulovska

We study the uniqueness problem in short-time Fourier transform phase retrieval by exploring a connection to the completeness problem of discrete translates. Specifically, we prove…

cs.LG2023

The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

Julius Berner, Philipp Grohs, Gitta Kutyniok +1

We describe the new field of mathematical analysis of deep learning. This field emerged around a list of research questions that were not answered within the classical framework of…

math.FA2012

Parabolic Molecules

Philipp Grohs, Gitta Kutyniok

Anisotropic decompositions using representation systems based on parabolic scaling such as curvelets or shearlets have recently attracted significantly increased attention due to t…

cs.LG2026

Is Variational Monte Carlo Robust? Sharp Moment Thresholds and Heavy-tailed Stochastic Optimization

Philipp Grohs, Davide Nobile

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) is a central algorithm in electronic structure theory and has gained renewed importance through modern neural-network ansätze such as FermiNet. At it…

cs.LG2025

FakET: Simulating Cryo-Electron Tomograms with Neural Style Transfer

Pavol Harar, Lukas Herrmann, Philipp Grohs +1

In cryo-electron microscopy, accurate particle localization and classification are imperative. Recent deep learning solutions, though successful, require extensive training data se…

cs.LG2026

The Information-Theoretic Benefit of Shared Representations under Orthogonality Constraints

Thomas Dittrich, Oliver Potocki, Philipp Grohs

Modern deep learning architectures are increasingly multi-task and multi-modal, using a pretrained foundation model combined with task-specific, fine-tuned models. Empirically, exp…

cs.LG2020

Analysis of the Generalization Error: Empirical Risk Minimization over Deep Artificial Neural Networks Overcomes the Curse of Dimensionality in the Numerical Approximation of Black-Scholes Partial Differential Equations

Julius Berner, Philipp Grohs, Arnulf Jentzen

The development of new classification and regression algorithms based on empirical risk minimization (ERM) over deep neural network hypothesis classes, coined deep learning, revolu…

cs.LG2022

Gold-standard solutions to the Schrödinger equation using deep learning: How much physics do we need?

Leon Gerard, Michael Scherbela, Philipp Marquetand +1

Finding accurate solutions to the Schrödinger equation is the key unsolved challenge of computational chemistry. Given its importance for the development of new chemical compounds…

cs.LG2016

Discrete Deep Feature Extraction: A Theory and New Architectures

Thomas Wiatowski, Michael Tschannen, Aleksandar Stanić +2

First steps towards a mathematical theory of deep convolutional neural networks for feature extraction were made---for the continuous-time case---in Mallat, 2012, and Wiatowski and…

math.NA2019

Deep neural network approximations for Monte Carlo algorithms

Philipp Grohs, Arnulf Jentzen, Diyora Salimova

Recently, it has been proposed in the literature to employ deep neural networks (DNNs) together with stochastic gradient descent methods to approximate solutions of PDEs. There are…

math.FA2023

Stable Gabor phase retrieval in Gaussian shift-invariant spaces via biorthogonality

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Liehr

We study the phase reconstruction of signals belonging to complex Gaussian shift-invariant spaces from spectrogram measurements where $\math…

math.NA2016

On the Approximation of Functions with Line Singularities by Ridgelets

Axel Obermeier, Philipp Grohs

In [GO15], the authors discussed the existence of numerically feasible solvers for advection equations that run in optimal computational complexity. In this paper, we complete the…

cs.LG2021

Deep Neural Network Approximation Theory

Dennis Elbrächter, Dmytro Perekrestenko, Philipp Grohs +1

This paper develops fundamental limits of deep neural network learning by characterizing what is possible if no constraints are imposed on the learning algorithm and on the amount…

math.FA2020

Phase Retrieval: Uniqueness and Stability

Philipp Grohs, Sarah Koppensteiner, Martin Rathmair

The problem of phase retrieval, i.e., the problem of recovering a function from the magnitudes of its Fourier transform, naturally arises in various fields of physics, such as astr…

cs.LG2018

The universal approximation power of finite-width deep ReLU networks

Dmytro Perekrestenko, Philipp Grohs, Dennis Elbrächter +1

We show that finite-width deep ReLU neural networks yield rate-distortion optimal approximation (Bölcskei et al., 2018) of polynomials, windowed sinusoidal functions, one-dimensio…

math.FA2009

Continuous Shearlet Frames and Resolution of the Wavefront Set

Philipp Grohs

In recent years directional multiscale transformations like the curvelet- or shearlet transformation have gained considerable attention. The reason for this is that these transform…

cs.LG2021

Proof of the Theory-to-Practice Gap in Deep Learning via Sampling Complexity bounds for Neural Network Approximation Spaces

Philipp Grohs, Felix Voigtlaender

We study the computational complexity of (deterministic or randomized) algorithms based on point samples for approximating or integrating functions that can be well approximated by…

cs.LG2018

Optimal Approximation with Sparsely Connected Deep Neural Networks

Helmut Bölcskei, Philipp Grohs, Gitta Kutyniok +1

We derive fundamental lower bounds on the connectivity and the memory requirements of deep neural networks guaranteeing uniform approximation rates for arbitrary function classes i…

stat.ML2018

Topology Reduction in Deep Convolutional Feature Extraction Networks

Thomas Wiatowski, Philipp Grohs, Helmut Bölcskei

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used in practice employ potentially hundreds of layers and ,s of nodes. Such network sizes entail significant computational compl…

physics.chem-ph2023

Variational Monte Carlo on a Budget -- Fine-tuning pre-trained Neural Wavefunctions

Michael Scherbela, Leon Gerard, Philipp Grohs

Obtaining accurate solutions to the Schrödinger equation is the key challenge in computational quantum chemistry. Deep-learning-based Variational Monte Carlo (DL-VMC) has recently…

cs.LG2023

Learning ReLU networks to high uniform accuracy is intractable

Julius Berner, Philipp Grohs, Felix Voigtlaender

Statistical learning theory provides bounds on the necessary number of training samples needed to reach a prescribed accuracy in a learning problem formulated over a given target c…

physics.comp-ph2024

Transferable Neural Wavefunctions for Solids

Leon Gerard, Michael Scherbela, Halvard Sutterud +2

Deep-Learning-based Variational Monte Carlo (DL-VMC) has recently emerged as a highly accurate approach for finding approximate solutions to the many-electron Schrödinger equation…

cs.IT2018

Energy Propagation in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Thomas Wiatowski, Philipp Grohs, Helmut Bölcskei

Many practical machine learning tasks employ very deep convolutional neural networks. Such large depths pose formidable computational challenges in training and operating the netwo…

math.FA2010

Continuous Shearlet Tight Frames

Philipp Grohs

Based on the shearlet transform we present a general construction of continuous tight frames for from any sufficiently smooth function with anisotropic moments.…

cs.LG2023

Sampling Complexity of Deep Approximation Spaces

Ahmed Abdeljawad, Philipp Grohs

While it is well-known that neural networks enjoy excellent approximation capabilities, it remains a big challenge to compute such approximations from point samples. Based on tools…

math.FA2016

Reconstructing real-valued functions from unsigned coefficients with respect to wavelet and other frames

Rima Alaifari, Ingrid Daubechies, Philipp Grohs +1

In this paper we consider the following problem of phase retrieval: Given a collection of real-valued band-limited functions that co…

math.NA2021

Solving the Kolmogorov PDE by means of deep learning

Christian Beck, Sebastian Becker, Philipp Grohs +2

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and the Kolmogorov partial differential equations (PDEs) associated to them have been widely used in models from engineering, finance, and…

math.FA2020

Gabor phase retrieval is severely ill-posed

Rima Alaifari, Philipp Grohs

The problem of reconstructing a function from the magnitudes of its frame coefficients has recently been shown to be never uniformly stable in infinite-dimensional spaces [5]. This…

math.NA2014

Optimal Adaptive Ridgelet Schemes for Linear Transport Equations

Philipp Grohs, Axel Obermeier

In this paper we present a novel method for the numerical solution of linear transport equations, which is based on ridgelets. Such equations arise for instance in radiative transf…

math.FA2023

Non-uniqueness theory in sampled STFT phase retrieval

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Liehr

The reconstruction of a function from its spectrogram (i.e., the absolute value of its short-time Fourier transform (STFT)) arises as a key problem in several important application…

math.FA2021

Sobolev-type embeddings for neural network approximation spaces

Philipp Grohs, Felix Voigtlaender

We consider neural network approximation spaces that classify functions according to the rate at which they can be approximated (with error measured in ) by ReLU neural networ…

math.NA2019

Space-time error estimates for deep neural network approximations for differential equations

Philipp Grohs, Fabian Hornung, Arnulf Jentzen +1

Over the last few years deep artificial neural networks (DNNs) have very successfully been used in numerical simulations for a wide variety of computational problems including comp…

math.FA2020

DNN Expression Rate Analysis of High-dimensional PDEs: Application to Option Pricing

Dennis Elbrächter, Philipp Grohs, Arnulf Jentzen +1

We analyze approximation rates by deep ReLU networks of a class of multi-variate solutions of Kolmogorov equations which arise in option pricing. Key technical devices are deep ReL…

math.NA2020

Uniform error estimates for artificial neural network approximations for heat equations

Lukas Gonon, Philipp Grohs, Arnulf Jentzen +2

Recently, artificial neural networks (ANNs) in conjunction with stochastic gradient descent optimization methods have been employed to approximately compute solutions of possibly r…

math.DG2010

Definability and stability of multiscale decompositions for manifold-valued data

Philipp Grohs, Johannes Wallner

We discuss multiscale representations of discrete manifold-valued data. As it turns out that we cannot expect general manifold-analogues of biorthogonal wavelets to possess perfect…

math.NA2021

Lower bounds for artificial neural network approximations: A proof that shallow neural networks fail to overcome the curse of dimensionality

Philipp Grohs, Shokhrukh Ibragimov, Arnulf Jentzen +1

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become a very powerful tool in the approximation of high-dimensional functions. Especially, deep ANNs, consisting of a large number of hidden…

math.FA2019

Stable Gabor phase retrieval for multivariate functions

Philipp Grohs, Martin Rathmair

In recent work [P. Grohs and M. Rathmair. Stable Gabor Phase Retrieval and Spectral Clustering. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (2018)] the instabilities of the Gabo…

physics.comp-ph2023

Towards a Foundation Model for Neural Network Wavefunctions

Michael Scherbela, Leon Gerard, Philipp Grohs

Deep neural networks have become a highly accurate and powerful wavefunction ansatz in combination with variational Monte Carlo methods for solving the electronic Schrödinger equa…

cs.LG2023

How degenerate is the parametrization of neural networks with the ReLU activation function?

Julius Berner, Dennis Elbrächter, Philipp Grohs

Neural network training is usually accomplished by solving a non-convex optimization problem using stochastic gradient descent. Although one optimizes over the networks parameters,…

math.NA2018

Projection-Based Finite Elements for Nonlinear Function Spaces

Philipp Grohs, Hanne Hardering, Oliver Sander +1

We introduce a novel type of approximation spaces for functions with values in a nonlinear manifold. The discrete functions are constructed by piecewise polynomial interpolation in…

math.NA2021

Deep neural network approximation for high-dimensional parabolic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Herrmann

The approximation of solutions to second order Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equations by deep neural networks is investigated. It is shown that for HJB equations that arise in t…

math.FA2014

Intrinsic Localization of Anisotropic Frames II: -Molecules

Philipp Grohs, Stefano Vigogna

This article is a continuation of the recent paper [Grohs, Intrinsic localization of anisotropic frames, ACHA, 2013], where off-diagonal-decay properties (often referred to as 'loc…

math.FA2021

-stability analysis for Gabor phase retrieval

Philipp Grohs, Martin Rathmair

We consider the problem of reconstructing the missing phase information from spectrogram data with $$ \mathcal{G}f(x,y)=\int_\mathbb{R} f(t) e^{-π(t-x)^2}e^{-2Ï…

math.FA2014

-Molecules

Philipp Grohs, Sandra Keiper, Gitta Kutyniok +1

Within the area of applied harmonic analysis, various multiscale systems such as wavelets, ridgelets, curvelets, and shearlets have been introduced and successfully applied. The ke…

math.DG2020

Ruled Laguerre minimal surfaces

Mikhail Skopenkov, Helmut Pottmann, Philipp Grohs

A Laguerre minimal surface is an immersed surface in the Euclidean space being an extremal of the functional \int (H^2/K - 1) dA. In the present paper, we prove that the only ruled…

math.FA2024

Phase retrieval in Fock space and perturbation of Liouville sets

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Liehr, Martin Rathmair

We study the determination of functions in Fock space from samples of their absolute value, known as the phase retrieval problem in Fock space. An important finding in this researc…

math.NA2020

Deep neural network approximation for high-dimensional elliptic PDEs with boundary conditions

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Herrmann

In recent work it has been established that deep neural networks are capable of approximating solutions to a large class of parabolic partial differential equations without incurri…

math.FA2020

Phase Transitions in Rate Distortion Theory and Deep Learning

Philipp Grohs, Andreas Klotz, Felix Voigtlaender

Rate distortion theory is concerned with optimally encoding a given signal class using a budget of bits, as . We say that can be compres…

cs.NE2021

Integral representations of shallow neural network with Rectified Power Unit activation function

Ahmed Abdeljawad, Philipp Grohs

In this effort, we derive a formula for the integral representation of a shallow neural network with the Rectified Power Unit activation function. Mainly, our first result deals wi…

cs.LG2019

Towards a regularity theory for ReLU networks -- chain rule and global error estimates

Julius Berner, Dennis Elbrächter, Philipp Grohs +1

Although for neural networks with locally Lipschitz continuous activation functions the classical derivative exists almost everywhere, the standard chain rule is in general not app…

math.NA2023

A proof that artificial neural networks overcome the curse of dimensionality in the numerical approximation of Black-Scholes partial differential equations

Philipp Grohs, Fabian Hornung, Arnulf Jentzen +1

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have very successfully been used in numerical simulations for a series of computational problems ranging from image classification/image recogniti…

stat.ML2024

The sampling complexity of learning invertible residual neural networks

Yuanyuan Li, Philipp Grohs, Philipp Petersen

In recent work it has been shown that determining a feedforward ReLU neural network to within high uniform accuracy from point samples suffers from the curse of dimensionality in t…

cs.LG2019

The Oracle of DLphi

Dominik Alfke, Weston Baines, Jan Blechschmidt +24

We present a novel technique based on deep learning and set theory which yields exceptional classification and prediction results. Having access to a sufficiently large amount of l…

math.FA2016

Phase retrieval in the general setting of continuous frames for Banach spaces

Rima Alaifari, Philipp Grohs

We develop a novel and unifying setting for phase retrieval problems that works in Banach spaces and for continuous frames and consider the questions of uniqueness and stability of…

cs.LG2020

Approximations with deep neural networks in Sobolev time-space

Ahmed Abdeljawad, Philipp Grohs

Solutions of evolution equation generally lies in certain Bochner-Sobolev spaces, in which the solution may has regularity and integrability properties for the time variable that c…

math.FA2017

Stable Gabor Phase Retrieval and Spectral Clustering

Philipp Grohs, Martin Rathmair

We consider the problem of reconstructing a signal from its spectrogram, i.e., the magnitudes of its Gabor transform $$V_φf (x,y):=\int_{\mathbb{R}}f(t)e^{-π(t-x)^2…

cs.LG2026

Limitations of Learning Tanh Neural Networks with Finite Precision

Philipp Grohs, Matěj Trödler

We investigate limitations of learning neural networks from point evaluations under finite-precision computations and accuracy guarantees, building on Berner, Grohs,…

cs.LG2020

Numerically Solving Parametric Families of High-Dimensional Kolmogorov Partial Differential Equations via Deep Learning

Julius Berner, Markus Dablander, Philipp Grohs

We present a deep learning algorithm for the numerical solution of parametric families of high-dimensional linear Kolmogorov partial differential equations (PDEs). Our method is ba…

math.FA2024

Phaseless sampling on square-root lattices

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Liehr

Due to its appearance in a remarkably wide field of applications, such as audio processing and coherent diffraction imaging, the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) phase retrieval…

cs.LG2025

Theory-to-Practice Gap for Neural Networks and Neural Operators

Philipp Grohs, Samuel Lanthaler, Margaret Trautner

This work studies the sampling complexity of learning with ReLU neural networks and neural operators. For mappings belonging to relevant approximation spaces, we derive upper bound…

math.FA2024

Multi-window STFT phase retrieval: lattice uniqueness

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Liehr, Martin Rathmair

Short-time Fourier transform (STFT) phase retrieval refers to the reconstruction of a function from its spectrogram, i.e., the magnitudes of its short-time Fourier transform $V…

math.FA2022

On foundational discretization barriers in STFT phase retrieval

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Liehr

We prove that there exists no window function and no lattice such that every is determined up to…

cs.LG2018

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on Cartoon Functions

Philipp Grohs, Thomas Wiatowski, Helmut Bölcskei

Wiatowski and Bölcskei, 2015, proved that deformation stability and vertical translation invariance of deep convolutional neural network-based feature extractors are guaranteed by…

physics.comp-ph2021

Solving the electronic Schrödinger equation for multiple nuclear geometries with weight-sharing deep neural networks

Michael Scherbela, Rafael Reisenhofer, Leon Gerard +2

Accurate numerical solutions for the Schrödinger equation are of utmost importance in quantum chemistry. However, the computational cost of current high-accuracy methods scales po…

math.FA2022

Injectivity of Gabor phase retrieval from lattice measurements

Philipp Grohs, Lukas Liehr

We establish novel uniqueness results for the Gabor phase retrieval problem: if denotes the Gabor transform then every $f \in…

math.FA2014

Cartoon Approximation with -Curvelets

Philipp Grohs, Sandra Keiper, Gitta Kutyniok +1

It is well-known that curvelets provide optimal approximations for so-called cartoon images which are defined as piecewise -functions, separated by a singularity curve.…

math.FA2017

Anisotropic Multiscale Systems on Bounded Domains

Philipp Grohs, Gitta Kutyniok, Jackie Ma +2

We provide a construction of multiscale systems on a bounded domain coined boundary shearlet systems, which satisfy several properties advantageous for app…