
It is well-known that randomly initialized, push-forward, fully-connected neural networks weakly converge to isotropic Gaussian processes, in the limit where the width of all layers goes to infinity. In this paper, we propose to use the angular power spectrum of the limiting field to characterize the complexity of the network architecture. In particular, we define sequences of random variables associated with the angular power spectrum, and provide a full characterization of the network complexity in terms of the asymptotic distribution of these sequences as the depth diverges. On this basis, we classify neural networks as low-disorder, sparse, or high-disorder; we show how this classification highlights a number of distinct features for standard activation functions, and in particular, sparsity properties of ReLU networks. Our theoretical results are also validated by numerical simulations.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Probability (math.PR), Gaussian processes, deep learning, Machine Learning (stat.ML), 68T07, 60G60, 33C55, 62M15, neural networks, isotropic random fields, Machine Learning (cs.LG), compositional kernels, Statistics - Machine Learning, FOS: Mathematics, angular power spectrum, Mathematics - Probability, Artificial neural networks and deep learning
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Probability (math.PR), Gaussian processes, deep learning, Machine Learning (stat.ML), 68T07, 60G60, 33C55, 62M15, neural networks, isotropic random fields, Machine Learning (cs.LG), compositional kernels, Statistics - Machine Learning, FOS: Mathematics, angular power spectrum, Mathematics - Probability, Artificial neural networks and deep learning
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