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20122026
most citedThe Principles of Deep Learning Theory

239 citations · 1.1k across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

math-ph2026

The Score Hamiltonian: Mapping Diffusion Models to Adiabatic Transport

Peter Halmos, Boris Hanin

We exhibit an exact correspondence between sampling with score-based diffusion models and adiabatic transport of ground states for a family of Schrödinger operators we call Score H…

math.PR2026

Top Singular Value in Sum-Products of Random Matrices

Kevin Han Huang, Boris Hanin

We study the top singular value for a sum of independent random matrices, each of which is a product of i.i.d. Gaussian matrices. Our main conceptu…

math.PR2025

Global Universality of Singular Values in Products of Many Large Random Matrices

Boris Hanin, Tianze Jiang

We study the singular values (and Lyapunov exponents) for products of independent random matrices with i.i.d. entries. Such matrix products have been extensively an…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Quantitative CLTs in Deep Neural Networks

Stefano Favaro, Boris Hanin, Domenico Marinucci +2

We study the distribution of a fully connected neural network with random Gaussian weights and biases in which the hidden layer widths are proportional to a large constant . Und…

stat.ML2023

Principles for Initialization and Architecture Selection in Graph Neural Networks with ReLU Activations

Gage DeZoort, Boris Hanin

This article derives and validates three principles for initialization and architecture selection in finite width graph neural networks (GNNs) with ReLU activations. First, we theo…

cs.LG2023

Depth Dependence of P Learning Rates in ReLU MLPs

Samy Jelassi, Boris Hanin, Ziwei Ji +3

In this short note we consider random fully connected ReLU networks of width and depth equipped with a mean-field weight initialization. Our purpose is to study the depende…

stat.ML2022

Bayesian Interpolation with Deep Linear Networks

Boris Hanin, Alexander Zlokapa

Characterizing how neural network depth, width, and dataset size jointly impact model quality is a central problem in deep learning theory. We give here a complete solution in the…

stat.ML2022★ 3 cited

Maximal Initial Learning Rates in Deep ReLU Networks

Gaurav Iyer, Boris Hanin, David Rolnick

Training a neural network requires choosing a suitable learning rate, which involves a trade-off between speed and effectiveness of convergence. While there has been considerable t…

math-ph2022

Scaling asymptotics of spectral Wigner functions

Boris Hanin, Steve Zelditch

We prove that smooth Wigner-Weyl spectral sums at an energy level exhibit Airy scaling asymptotics across the classical energy surface . This was proved earlier by the aut…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Deep Architecture Connectivity Matters for Its Convergence: A Fine-Grained Analysis

Wuyang Chen, Wei Huang, Xinyu Gong +2

Advanced deep neural networks (DNNs), designed by either human or AutoML algorithms, are growing increasingly complex. Diverse operations are connected by complicated connectivity…

math.PR2022★ 4 cited

Random Fully Connected Neural Networks as Perturbatively Solvable Hierarchies

Boris Hanin

This article considers fully connected neural networks with Gaussian random weights and biases as well as hidden layers, each of width proportional to a large parameter . Fo…

stat.ML2021

Ridgeless Interpolation with Shallow ReLU Networks in is Nearest Neighbor Curvature Extrapolation and Provably Generalizes on Lipschitz Functions

Boris Hanin

We prove a precise geometric description of all one layer ReLU networks with a single linear unit and input/output dimensions equal to one that interpolate a given dataset…

math.PR2021

Random Neural Networks in the Infinite Width Limit as Gaussian Processes

Boris Hanin

This article gives a new proof that fully connected neural networks with random weights and biases converge to Gaussian processes in the regime where the input dimension, output di…

cs.LG2021★ 239 cited

The Principles of Deep Learning Theory

Daniel A. Roberts, Sho Yaida, Boris Hanin

This book develops an effective theory approach to understanding deep neural networks of practical relevance. Beginning from a first-principles component-level picture of networks,…

stat.ML2021★ 7 cited

Deep ReLU Networks Preserve Expected Length

Boris Hanin, Ryan Jeong, David Rolnick

Assessing the complexity of functions computed by a neural network helps us understand how the network will learn and generalize. One natural measure of complexity is how the netwo…

math.NA2020

Neural Network Approximation

Ronald DeVore, Boris Hanin, Guergana Petrova

Neural Networks (NNs) are the method of choice for building learning algorithms. Their popularity stems from their empirical success on several challenging learning problems. Howev…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

How Data Augmentation affects Optimization for Linear Regression

Boris Hanin, Yi Sun

Though data augmentation has rapidly emerged as a key tool for optimization in modern machine learning, a clear picture of how augmentation schedules affect optimization and intera…

math.PR2020

Non-asymptotic Results for Singular Values of Gaussian Matrix Products

Boris Hanin, Grigoris Paouris

This article concerns the non-asymptotic analysis of the singular values (and Lyapunov exponents) of Gaussian matrix products in the regime where the number of term in the pro…

cs.LG2019★ 21 cited

Finite Depth and Width Corrections to the Neural Tangent Kernel

Boris Hanin, Mihai Nica

We prove the precise scaling, at finite depth and width, for the mean and variance of the neural tangent kernel (NTK) in a randomly initialized ReLU network. The standard deviation…

stat.ML2019★ 105 cited

Deep ReLU Networks Have Surprisingly Few Activation Patterns

Boris Hanin, David Rolnick

The success of deep networks has been attributed in part to their expressivity: per parameter, deep networks can approximate a richer class of functions than shallow networks. In R…

cs.LG2019★ 102 cited

Nonlinear Approximation and (Deep) ReLU Networks

I. Daubechies, R. DeVore, S. Foucart +2

This article is concerned with the approximation and expressive powers of deep neural networks. This is an active research area currently producing many interesting papers. The res…

math-ph2019

Interface Asymptotics of Wigner-Weyl Distributions for the Harmonic Oscillator

Boris Hanin, Steve Zelditch

We prove several types of scaling results for Wigner distributions of spectral projections of the isotropic Harmonic oscillator on . In prior work, we studied Wigner d…

math-ph2019

Interface Asymptotics of Eigenspace Wigner distributions for the Harmonic Oscillator

Boris Hanin, Steve Zelditch

Eigenspaces of the quantum isotropic Harmonic Oscillator on have extremally high multiplicites and the…

stat.ML2019★ 55 cited

Complexity of Linear Regions in Deep Networks

Boris Hanin, David Rolnick

It is well-known that the expressivity of a neural network depends on its architecture, with deeper networks expressing more complex functions. In the case of networks that compute…