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Bayes-optimal learning of deep random networks of extensive-width*

Cui, Hugo  
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Krzakala, Florent  
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Zdeborova, Lenka  
January 1, 2025
Journal Of Statistical Mechanics-theory And Experiment

We consider the problem of learning a target function corresponding to a deep, extensive-width, non-linear neural network with random Gaussian weights. We consider the asymptotic limit where the number of samples, the input dimension and the network width are proportionally large. We propose a closed-form expression for the Bayes-optimal test error, for regression and classification tasks. We further compute closed-form expressions for the test errors of ridge regression, kernel and random features regression. We find, in particular, that optimally regularized ridge regression, as well as kernel regression, achieve Bayes-optimal performances, while the logistic loss yields a near-optimal test error for classification. We further show numerically that when the number of samples grows faster than the dimension, ridge and kernel methods become suboptimal, while neural networks achieve test error close to zero from quadratically many samples.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/1742-5468/ada696
Web of Science ID

WOS:001409840700001

Author(s)
Cui, Hugo  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Krzakala, Florent  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Zdeborova, Lenka  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-01-01

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd

Published in
Journal Of Statistical Mechanics-theory And Experiment
Volume

2025

Issue

1

Article Number

014001

Subjects

learning theory

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machine learning

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deep learning

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
IDEPHICS1  
SPOC1  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

European Research Council (ERC)

714608-SMiLe

Swiss National Science Foundation grant SNFS OperaGOST

200021_200390

Available on Infoscience
February 10, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/246705
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