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Researchers prove robustness law for two-layer neural networks

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Researchers have proven a "law of robustness" for two-layer neural networks with arbitrary weights, addressing a conjecture by Bubeck, Li, and Nagaraj. The proof, which holds for continuous piecewise-linear activations like ReLU, establishes that fitting noisy data below a certain threshold necessitates a specific Lipschitz constant. This finding is significant because it does not require restrictions on the size of the network's weights, a limitation present in previous related proofs. AI

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Researchers prove robustness law for two-layer neural networks

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Yitzchak Shmalo ·

    A law of robustness for two-layer neural networks with arbitrary weights

    arXiv:2607.07778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bubeck, Li and Nagaraj conjectured that, for generic data, any two-layer neural network with $m$ neurons that fits $n$ noisy labels must have Lipschitz constant at least of order $\sqrt{n/m}$, with no restriction on the size of th…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Yitzchak Shmalo ·

    A law of robustness for two-layer neural networks with arbitrary weights

    Bubeck, Li and Nagaraj conjectured that, for generic data, any two-layer neural network with $m$ neurons that fits $n$ noisy labels must have Lipschitz constant at least of order $\sqrt{n/m}$, with no restriction on the size of the weights. Bubeck and Sellke proved a universal ve…

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