On the Sample Complexity of Two-Layer Networks: Lipschitz vs. Element-Wise Lipschitz Activation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09634v4
• Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:04:21 GMT
• Title: On the Sample Complexity of Two-Layer Networks: Lipschitz vs. Element-Wise Lipschitz Activation
• Authors: Amit Daniely and Elad Granot
• Abstract summary: We investigate the sample complexity of bounded two-layer neural networks using different activation functions. We prove that if $sigma$ is element-wise, then the sample complexity of $mathcalH$ has only logarithmic dependency in width.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We investigate the sample complexity of bounded two-layer neural networks using different activation functions. In particular, we consider the class $$ \mathcal{H} = \left\{\textbf{x}\mapsto \langle \textbf{v}, \sigma \circ W\textbf{b} + \textbf{b} \rangle : \textbf{b}\in\mathbb{R}^d, W \in \mathbb{R}^{\mathcal{T}\times d}, \textbf{v} \in \mathbb{R}^{\mathcal{T}}\right\} $$ where the spectral norm of $W$ and $\textbf{v}$ is bounded by $O(1)$, the Frobenius norm of $W$ is bounded from its initialization by $R > 0$, and $\sigma$ is a Lipschitz activation function. We prove that if $\sigma$ is element-wise, then the sample complexity of $\mathcal{H}$ has only logarithmic dependency in width and that this complexity is tight, up to logarithmic factors. We further show that the element-wise property of $\sigma$ is essential for a logarithmic dependency bound in width, in the sense that there exist non-element-wise activation functions whose sample complexity is linear in width, for widths that can be up to exponential in the input dimension. For the upper bound, we use the recent approach for norm-based bounds named Approximate Description Length (ADL) by arXiv:1910.05697. We further develop new techniques and tools for this approach that will hopefully inspire future works.

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