分阶段训练神经网络,逐步减少误差,实现稳定且可解释的逼近。
Multigrade Neural Network Approximation
- 逐级添加子网络,每层学习前一层的残差,形成结构化优化过程。
- 固定宽度下,残差点态递减,$L^p$范数在每级严格衰减至零。
- 首次证明分阶残差训练可全局收敛,适合追求模型可解释性的研究者。
我们研究多级深度学习(MGDL)作为一种结构化误差精炼的严谨框架。尽管神经网络的逼近能力已有较好理解,但极深架构的训练仍因高度非凸且常病态的优化景观而困难。相比之下,较浅网络(尤其是某些单隐藏层ReLU模型)在适当条件下可转化为凸问题并保证全局最优,这启发了提升稳定性同时扩展深度的学习范式。MGDL基于此思想,采用分阶训练:先前学习的层级被冻结,新增的层级子网络叠加在已学层级之上,并训练以拟合当前近似的残差,形成结构化、可解释的层次化精炼过程。我们为MGDL建立了算子理论基础,证明对于定义在超立方体上的任意连续目标函数,存在固定宽度的多级ReLU方案,其残差幅度点态非增,且一致收敛于零,且对任意 $p o[1,ty)$,每级均有严格的 $L^p$-范数衰减。据我们所知,这是首个严格构造性逼近保证,表明分阶残差精炼可在固定宽度多级ReLU架构中实现误差消失。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We study multigrade deep learning (MGDL) as a principled framework for structured error refinement in deep neural networks. While the approximation power of neural networks is now relatively well understood, training very deep architectures remains challenging due to highly nonconvex and often ill-conditioned optimization landscapes. In contrast, for relatively shallow networks, most notably certain one-hidden-layer ReLU models, training admits convex reformulations with global guarantees under appropriate settings, motivating learning paradigms that improve stability while scaling to depth. MGDL builds on this insight by training deep networks grade by grade: previously learned grades are frozen, and each newly added grade-wise subnetwork is composed on top of the previously learned grades and trained to fit the residual left by the current approximation, yielding a structured and interpretable hierarchical refinement process. We develop an operator-theoretic foundation for MGDL and prove that, for any continuous target function defined on a hypercube, there exists a fixed-width multigrade ReLU scheme whose residuals are pointwise nonincreasing in magnitude and converge uniformly to zero, with strict $L^p$-norm decay at every nontrivial grade for $p\in [1,\infty)$. To the best of our knowledge, this work provides the first rigorous constructive approximation guarantee showing that a grade-wise residual refinement scheme can achieve vanishing error in a fixed-width multigrade ReLU architecture.
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