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Tropical circuits with scalar multiplication gates analyzed · 2 sources tracked

Researchers have introduced tropical circuits with scalar multiplication gates, which utilize operations like max, addition, and multiplication by a positive constant. The study establishes exponential size lower bounds for these circuits when computing maximum weight directed spanning trees and maximum weight bipartite perfect matchings. This work also demonstrates an exponential size difference between monotone and non-monotone maxout neural networks, which are extensions of ReLU networks, highlighting that input-convex neural networks may require significantly larger sizes than their unrestricted counterparts to represent the same functions. AI

IMPACT This research may lead to a better understanding of the trade-offs between model size and expressivity in neural networks, particularly for models with enforced convexity constraints.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Christoph Hertrich, Moritz Stargalla ·

    Tropical Circuits with Scalar Multiplication Gates

    arXiv:2607.11540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study tropical circuits with scalar multiplication gates, that is, algebraic circuits whose gates implement $\max$, $+$, or multiplication with a positive constant. For such circuits, we prove exponential size lower bounds for …

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Moritz Stargalla ·

    Tropical Circuits with Scalar Multiplication Gates

    We study tropical circuits with scalar multiplication gates, that is, algebraic circuits whose gates implement $\max$, $+$, or multiplication with a positive constant. For such circuits, we prove exponential size lower bounds for computing maximum weight directed spanning trees a…