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most citedDeep Network Approximation for Smooth Functions

196 citations · 915 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Deep Network Approximation in Terms of Intrinsic Parameters

Zuowei Shen, Haizhao Yang, Shijun Zhang

One of the arguments to explain the success of deep learning is the powerful approximation capacity of deep neural networks. Such capacity is generally accompanied by the explosive…

cs.LG2021★ 16 cited

Deep Network Approximation: Achieving Arbitrary Accuracy with Fixed Number of Neurons

Zuowei Shen, Haizhao Yang, Shijun Zhang

This paper develops simple feed-forward neural networks that achieve the universal approximation property for all continuous functions with a fixed finite number of neurons. These…

cs.LG2021★ 90 cited

Optimal Approximation Rate of ReLU Networks in terms of Width and Depth

Zuowei Shen, Haizhao Yang, Shijun Zhang

This paper concentrates on the approximation power of deep feed-forward neural networks in terms of width and depth. It is proved by construction that ReLU networks with width $\ma…

cs.LG2020★ 132 cited

Neural Network Approximation: Three Hidden Layers Are Enough

Zuowei Shen, Haizhao Yang, Shijun Zhang

A three-hidden-layer neural network with super approximation power is introduced. This network is built with the floor function (), the exponential function ($2^x…

cs.LG2020★ 61 cited

Deep Network with Approximation Error Being Reciprocal of Width to Power of Square Root of Depth

Zuowei Shen, Haizhao Yang, Shijun Zhang

A new network with super approximation power is introduced. This network is built with Floor () or ReLU () activation function in each neuron and hen…

cs.LG2020

Optimization in Machine Learning: A Distribution Space Approach

Yongqiang Cai, Qianxiao Li, Zuowei Shen

We present the viewpoint that optimization problems encountered in machine learning can often be interpreted as minimizing a convex functional over a function space, but with a non…