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20192024
most citedSharp Bounds on the Approximation Rates, Metric Entropy, and -widths of Shallow Neural Networks

60 citations · 202 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

stat.ML2024

Approximation Rates for Shallow ReLU Neural Networks on Sobolev Spaces via the Radon Transform

Tong Mao, Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu

Let be a bounded domain. We consider the problem of how efficiently shallow neural networks with the ReLU activation function can approximate functions…

stat.ML2023★ 3 cited

Weighted variation spaces and approximation by shallow ReLU networks

Ronald DeVore, Robert D. Nowak, Rahul Parhi +1

We investigate the approximation of functions on a bounded domain by the outputs of single-hidden-layer ReLU neural networks of width . This form of…

stat.ML2023★ 2 cited

Optimal Approximation of Zonoids and Uniform Approximation by Shallow Neural Networks

Jonathan W. Siegel

We study the following two related problems. The first is to determine to what error an arbitrary zonoid in can be approximated in the Hausdorff distance by a su…

stat.ML2023

Sharp Convergence Rates for Matching Pursuit

Jason M. Klusowski, Jonathan W. Siegel

We study the fundamental limits of matching pursuit, or the pure greedy algorithm, for approximating a target function by a linear combination of elements from a di…

math.NA2023★ 11 cited

Entropy-based convergence rates of greedy algorithms

Yuwen Li, Jonathan Siegel

We present convergence estimates of two types of greedy algorithms in terms of the metric entropy of underlying compact sets. In the first part, we measure the error of a standard…

stat.ML2023

Nesterov acceleration despite very noisy gradients

Kanan Gupta, Jonathan W. Siegel, Stephan Wojtowytsch

We present a generalization of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent algorithm. Our algorithm (AGNES) provably achieves acceleration for smooth convex and strongly convex minimiz…

cs.LG2023

Sharp Lower Bounds on Interpolation by Deep ReLU Neural Networks at Irregularly Spaced Data

Jonathan W. Siegel

We study the interpolation power of deep ReLU neural networks. Specifically, we consider the question of how efficiently, in terms of the number of parameters, deep ReLU networks c…

stat.ML2022★ 9 cited

Optimal Approximation Rates for Deep ReLU Neural Networks on Sobolev and Besov Spaces

Jonathan W. Siegel

Let be the unit cube in . We study the problem of how efficiently, in terms of the number of parameters, deep neural networks with the ReLU activation fu…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

On the Activation Function Dependence of the Spectral Bias of Neural Networks

Qingguo Hong, Jonathan W. Siegel, Qinyang Tan +1

Neural networks are universal function approximators which are known to generalize well despite being dramatically overparameterized. We study this phenomenon from the point of vie…

math.NA2021★ 3 cited

Greedy Training Algorithms for Neural Networks and Applications to PDEs

Jonathan W. Siegel, Qingguo Hong, Xianlin Jin +2

Recently, neural networks have been widely applied for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Although such methods have been proven remarkably successful on practical engi…

stat.ML2021★ 9 cited

Characterization of the Variation Spaces Corresponding to Shallow Neural Networks

Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu

We study the variation space corresponding to a dictionary of functions in for a bounded domain . Specifically, we compare the variation space, whic…

math.ST2021

Optimal Convergence Rates for the Orthogonal Greedy Algorithm

Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu

We analyze the orthogonal greedy algorithm when applied to dictionaries whose convex hull has small entropy. We show that if the metric entropy of the convex hull of $…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Sharp Lower Bounds on the Approximation Rate of Shallow Neural Networks

Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu

We consider the approximation rates of shallow neural networks with respect to the variation norm. Upper bounds on these rates have been established for sigmoidal and ReLU activati…

math.NA2021★ 11 cited

A Priori Analysis of Stable Neural Network Solutions to Numerical PDEs

Qingguo Hong, Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu

Methods for solving PDEs using neural networks have recently become a very important topic. We provide an a priori error analysis for such methods which is based on the $\mathcal{K…

stat.ML2021★ 60 cited

Sharp Bounds on the Approximation Rates, Metric Entropy, and -widths of Shallow Neural Networks

Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu

In this article, we study approximation properties of the variation spaces corresponding to shallow neural networks with a variety of activation functions. We introduce two main to…

math.NA2020★ 4 cited

High-Order Approximation Rates for Shallow Neural Networks with Cosine and ReLU Activation Functions

Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu

We study the approximation properties of shallow neural networks with an activation function which is a power of the rectified linear unit. Specifically, we consider the dependence…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 40 cited

Extensible Structure-Informed Prediction of Formation Energy with Improved Accuracy and Usability employing Neural Networks

Adam M. Krajewski, Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu +1

In the present paper, we introduce a new neural network-based tool for the prediction of formation energies of atomic structures based on elemental and structural features of Voron…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

Training Sparse Neural Networks using Compressed Sensing

Jonathan W. Siegel, Jianhong Chen, Pengchuan Zhang +1

Pruning the weights of neural networks is an effective and widely-used technique for reducing model size and inference complexity. We develop and test a novel method based on compr…

math.OC2019

Extended Regularized Dual Averaging Methods for Stochastic Optimization

Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu

We introduce a new algorithm, extended regularized dual averaging (XRDA), for solving regularized stochastic optimization problems, which generalizes the regularized dual averaging…

math.CA2019★ 6 cited

Approximation Rates for Neural Networks with General Activation Functions

Jonathan W. Siegel, Jinchao Xu

We prove some new results concerning the approximation rate of neural networks with general activation functions. Our first result concerns the rate of approximation of a two layer…

math.OC2019★ 15 cited

Accelerated First-Order Methods: Differential Equations and Lyapunov Functions

Jonathan W. Siegel

We develop a theory of accelerated first-order optimization from the viewpoint of differential equations and Lyapunov functions. Building upon the previous work of many researchers…

math.OC2019★ 17 cited

Accelerated Optimization With Orthogonality Constraints

Jonathan W. Siegel

We develop a generalization of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method which is designed to deal with orthogonality constraints. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our meth…