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most citedMinimum Width of Leaky-ReLU Neural Networks for Uniform Universal Approximation

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math.OC2025

Achieving Universal Approximation and Universal Interpolation via Nonlinearity of Control Families

Yongqiang Cai, Yifei Duan

A significant connection exists between the controllability of dynamical systems and the approximation capabilities of neural networks, where residual networks and vanilla feedforw…

cs.CL2025

Retrieval Backward Attention without Additional Training: Enhance Embeddings of Large Language Models via Repetition

Yifei Duan, Raphael Shang, Deng Liang +1

Language models can be viewed as functions that embed text into Euclidean space, where the quality of the embedding vectors directly determines model performance, training such neu…

eess.SY2023

A Minimal Control Family of Dynamical Systems for Universal Approximation

Yifei Duan, Yongqiang Cai

The universal approximation property (UAP) holds a fundamental position in deep learning, as it provides a theoretical foundation for the expressive power of neural networks. It is…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Minimum Width of Leaky-ReLU Neural Networks for Uniform Universal Approximation

Li'ang Li, Yifei Duan, Guanghua Ji +1

The study of universal approximation properties (UAP) for neural networks (NN) has a long history. When the network width is unlimited, only a single hidden layer is sufficient for…

cs.LG2022

Vanilla Feedforward Neural Networks as a Discretization of Dynamical Systems

Yifei Duan, Li'ang Li, Guanghua Ji +1

Deep learning has made significant applications in the field of data science and natural science. Some studies have linked deep neural networks to dynamic systems, but the network…