Asymptotic convexity of wide and shallow neural networks

Vivek Borkar, Parthe Pandit

Published: 2025/6/23

Abstract

For a simple model of shallow and wide neural networks, we show that the epigraph of its input-output map as a function of the network parameters approximates epigraph of a. convex function in a precise sense. This leads to a plausible explanation of their observed good performance.

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