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Exponential Expressivity of ReLU^k Neural Networks on Gevrey Classes with Point Singularities

by J. A. A. Opschoor and Ch. Schwab

(Report number 2024-11)

Abstract
We analyze deep Neural Network emulation rates of smooth functions with point singularities in bounded, polytopal domains \(\mathrm{D} \subset \mathbb{R}^d\), \(d=2,3\). We prove exponential emulation rates in Sobolev spaces in terms of the number of neurons and in terms of the number of nonzero coefficients for Gevrey-regular solution classes defined in terms of weighted Sobolev scales in \(\mathrm{D}\), comprising the countably-normed spaces of I.M. Babuska and B.Q. Guo. As intermediate result, we prove that continuous, piecewise polynomial high order (``\(p\)-version'') finite elements with elementwise polynomial degree \(p\in\mathbb{N}\) on arbitrary, regular, simplicial partitions of polyhedral domains \(\mathrm{D} \subset \mathbb{R}^d\), \(d\geq 2\) can be exactly emulated by neural networks combining ReLU and ReLU\(^2\) activations. On shape-regular, simplicial partitions of polytopal domains \(\mathrm{D}\), both the number of neurons and the number of nonzero parameters are proportional to the number of degrees of freedom of the finite element space, in particular for the \(hp\)-Finite Element Method of I.M. Babuska and B.Q. Guo.

Keywords: Neural Networks, hp-Finite Element Methods, Singularities, Gevrey Regularity, Exponential Convergence

@Techreport{OS24_1093,
  author = {J. A. A. Opschoor and Ch. Schwab},
  title = {Exponential Expressivity of ReLU^k Neural Networks on Gevrey Classes with Point Singularities},
  institution = {Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Z{\"u}rich},
  number = {2024-11},
  address = {Switzerland},
  url = {https://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/sam_reports/reports_final/reports2024/2024-11.pdf },
  year = {2024}
}

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