Neural signature kernels as infinite-width-depth-limits of controlled ResNets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17671v2
• Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 12:45:08 GMT
• Title: Neural signature kernels as infinite-width-depth-limits of controlled ResNets
• Authors: Nicola Muca Cirone, Maud Lemercier, Cristopher Salvi
• Abstract summary: We consider randomly controlled ResNets defined as Euler-discretizations of neural controlled differential equations (Neural CDEs) We show that in the infinite-width-depth limit and under proper scaling, these architectures converge weakly to Gaussian processes indexed on some spaces of continuous paths. We show that in the infinite-depth regime, finite-width controlled ResNets converge in distribution to Neural CDEs with random vector fields.
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• Abstract: Motivated by the paradigm of reservoir computing, we consider randomly initialized controlled ResNets defined as Euler-discretizations of neural controlled differential equations (Neural CDEs), a unified architecture which enconpasses both RNNs and ResNets. We show that in the infinite-width-depth limit and under proper scaling, these architectures converge weakly to Gaussian processes indexed on some spaces of continuous paths and with kernels satisfying certain partial differential equations (PDEs) varying according to the choice of activation function, extending the results of Hayou (2022); Hayou & Yang (2023) to the controlled and homogeneous case. In the special, homogeneous, case where the activation is the identity, we show that the equation reduces to a linear PDE and the limiting kernel agrees with the signature kernel of Salvi et al. (2021a). We name this new family of limiting kernels neural signature kernels. Finally, we show that in the infinite-depth regime, finite-width controlled ResNets converge in distribution to Neural CDEs with random vector fields which, depending on whether the weights are shared across layers, are either time-independent and Gaussian or behave like a matrix-valued Brownian motion.

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