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20242026
collaborators

5 papers

math.AP2026

The Barron-Lipschitz Energy Gap and Depth Separation Phenomena in Scientific Machine Learning

Nima Rezaei, Stephan Wojtowytsch

We illustrate in several examples that even neural networks of infinite width (specifically, Barron functions) may encounter substantial obstacles when used as a model class for pr…

math.AP2025

Momentum-based minimization of the Ginzburg-Landau functional on Euclidean spaces and graphs

Oluwatosin Akande, Patrick Dondl, Kanan Gupta +2

We study the momentum-based minimization of a diffuse perimeter functional on Euclidean spaces and on graphs with applications to semi-supervised classification tasks in machine le…

math.NA2025

Convex-concave splitting for the Allen-Cahn equation leads to -slow movement of interfaces

Patrick Dondl, Akwum Onwunta, Ludwig Striet +1

The convex-concave splitting discretization of the Allen-Cahn is easy to implement and guaranteed to be energy decreasing even for large time-steps. We analyze the time-stepping sc…

math.OC2025

Nesterov acceleration in benignly non-convex landscapes

Kanan Gupta, Stephan Wojtowytsch

While momentum-based optimization algorithms are commonly used in the notoriously non-convex optimization problems of deep learning, their analysis has historically been restricted…

stat.ML2024

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…