arxivstat.MLcs.LG2026-07-02
Born Discrete, Made Smooth: Variational Formulation of Shallow Neural Networks
Matej Benko, Pierre Bousquet, Iwona Chlebicka, Błażej Miasojedow
Although neural networks are remarkably effective, their underlying optimization principles remain theoretically elusive, often characterized by non-convex landscapes and stochastic heuristics. In this work, we propose a paradigm shift by replacing the discrete training problem o…