Universal approximation power of deep residual neural networks through the lens of control

P Tabuada, B Gharesifard - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we show that deep residual neural networks have the power of universal
approximation by using, in an essential manner, the observation that these networks can be …

Control of neural transport for normalising flows

D Ruiz-Balet, E Zuazua - Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, 2024 - Elsevier
Inspired by normalising flows, we analyse the bilinear control of neural transport equations
by means of time-dependent velocity fields restricted to fulfil, at any time instance, a simple …

Learning robust state observers using neural odes

K Miao, K Gatsis - Learning for Dynamics and Control …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Relying on recent research results on Neural ODEs, this paper presents a methodology for
the design of state observers for nonlinear systems based on Neural ODEs, learning …

Observer-based control barrier functions for safety critical systems

Y Wang, X Xu - 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the safety-critical control design problem with output measurements.
An observer-based safety control framework that integrates the estimation error quantified …

A measure theoretical approach to the mean-field maximum principle for training NeurODEs

B Bonnet, C Cipriani, M Fornasier, H Huang - Nonlinear Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper we consider a measure-theoretical formulation of the training of NeurODEs in
the form of a mean-field optimal control with L 2-regularization of the control. We derive first …

Deep residual neural network (ResNet)-based adaptive control: A Lyapunov-based approach

OS Patil, DM Le, EJ Griffis… - 2022 IEEE 61st …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based controllers have emerged as a tool to compensate for
unstructured uncertainties in nonlinear dynamical systems. A recent breakthrough in the …

Mad max: Affine spline insights into deep learning

R Balestriero, RG Baraniuk - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We build a rigorous bridge between deep networks (DNs) and approximation theory via
spline functions and operators. Our key result is that a large class of DNs can be written as a …

Neural tangent kernel analysis of deep narrow neural networks

J Lee, JY Choi, EK Ryu, A No - International Conference on …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
The tremendous recent progress in analyzing the training dynamics of overparameterized
neural networks has primarily focused on wide networks and therefore does not sufficiently …

Achieve the minimum width of neural networks for universal approximation

Y Cai - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.11395, 2022 - arxiv.org
The universal approximation property (UAP) of neural networks is fundamental for deep
learning, and it is well known that wide neural networks are universal approximators of …

Feedforward neural networks and compositional functions with applications to dynamical systems

W Kang, Q Gong - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2022 - SIAM
In this paper we develop an algebraic framework for analyzing neural network
approximation of compositional functions, a rich class of functions that are frequently …