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On the Effective Number of Linear Regions in Shallow Univariate ReLU Networks: Convergence Guarantees and Implicit Bias
Itay Safran · Gal Vardi · Jason Lee

Tue Nov 29 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Hall J #728
in Poster Session 2 »
We study the dynamics and implicit bias of gradient flow (GF) on univariate ReLU neural networks with a single hidden layer in a binary classification setting. We show that when the labels are determined by the sign of a target network with $r$ neurons, with high probability over the initialization of the network and the sampling of the dataset, GF converges in direction (suitably defined) to a network achieving perfect training accuracy and having at most $\mathcal{O}(r)$ linear regions, implying a generalization bound. Unlike many other results in the literature, under an additional assumption on the distribution of the data, our result holds even for mild over-parameterization, where the width is $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(r)$ and independent of the sample size.
Keywords: Non-Convex Optimization · Gradient flow · Deep Learning Theory
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Itay Safran (Princeton University)
Gal Vardi (TTI-Chicago)
Jason Lee (University of Southern California)

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