Reproducing Kernel Banach Space Models for Neural Networks with Application to Rademacher Complexity Analysis

Alistair Shilton (Deakin University) · Sunil Gupta (Deakin University) · Santu Rana (Deakin University) · Svetha Venkatesh (Deakin University)
banach spacecomplexity boundsdepth-independent boundfeedforward neural networksfinite energy activationshermite transformmodel constructionnetwork topologyrademacher complexityreproducing kernelresnetspectral normtransformersweights and biaseswidth-independent bound

This paper explores the use of Hermite transform based reproducing kernel Banach space methods to construct exact or un-approximated models of feedforward neural networks of arbitrary width, depth and topology, including ResNet and Transformers networks, assuming only a feedforward topology, finite energy activations and finite (spectral-) norm weights and biases. Using this model, two straightforward but surprisingly tight bounds on Rademacher complexity are derived, precisely (1) a general bound that is width-independent and scales exponentially with depth; and (2) a width- and depth-independent bound for networks with appropriately constrained (below threshold) weights and biases.