提出双通道张量神经网络,兼顾低秩与稀疏结构,实现精准预测与可靠不确定性估计。
Dual-Channel Tensor Neural Networks: Finite-Sample Theory and Conformal Structure Selection

- 将张量分解为低秩核心与稀疏修正两通道,耦合神经网络处理
- 理论证明有效维度由核心秩与修正稀疏度决定,不随张量规模膨胀
- 首个无需分布假设的张量结构选择方法,支持有限样本验证
张量数据在神经影像、基因组学、气候科学和时空网络中广泛存在,其多线性依赖关系在向量化后会丢失。现有方法或仅施加单一低秩结构(可能遗漏局部信号),或将其视为长向量(破坏多维几何)。我们提出双通道张量神经网络(DC-TNN),将每个张量输入分解为低秩核心与稀疏修正,并通过耦合神经通道分别处理。该框架结构无偏,可统一处理CP、Tucker与张量训练核心。在估计方面,建立了非渐近风险界,分解为网络逼近、核心估计与修正选择三项误差,表明有效维度由核心秩与修正稀疏度共同决定,而非张量原始尺寸。在推断方面,提出结构感知的共形ROC程序,在核心-修正隐空间校准,生成具有有限样本、分布无关覆盖性的ROC与AUC置信带。进一步提出共形结构选择器,据我们所知是首个具有有限样本有效性的分布无关张量分解选择方法。模拟实验与蛋白质数据集分析显示,该方法兼具优异预测精度、可靠不确定性量化及稳定的张量结构恢复能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Tensor-valued data arise naturally in neuroimaging, genomics, climate science, and spatiotemporal networks, where multilinear dependencies across modes carry information that is destroyed under vectorization. Existing approaches either impose a single low-rank structure, which can miss localized signal, or treat the tensor as a long vector, which discards its multiway geometry. We propose a *Dual-Channel Tensor Neural Network* (DC-TNN) that decomposes each tensor input into a low-rank core and a sparse refinement, and processes the two components through coupled neural channels. The framework is structure-agnostic and accommodates CP, Tucker, and tensor-train cores within a single architecture. For estimation, we establish non-asymptotic risk bounds for the DC-TNN estimator that decompose into network approximation, core estimation, and refinement-selection terms, and show that the effective dimension is determined jointly by the core rank and refinement sparsity rather than by the ambient tensor size. For inference, we develop a *structure-aware conformal ROC* procedure that calibrates within the core-refinement latent space and produces ROC and AUC confidence bands with finite-sample, distribution-free coverage. Building on this, we propose a *conformal structure selector* that, to our knowledge, is the *first distribution-free procedure* for choosing among candidate tensor decompositions with finite-sample validity. Simulations and an analysis of a protein dataset demonstrate competitive predictive accuracy, reliable uncertainty quantification, and consistent recovery of the tensor structure.
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