Large and moderate deviations for Gaussian neural networks
We prove large and moderate deviations for the output of Gaussian fully connected neural networks. The main achievements concern deep neural networks (i.e., when the model has more than one hidden layer) and hold for bounded and continuous pre-activation functions. However, for deep neural networks fed by a single input, we have results even if the pre-activation is ReLU. When the network is shallow (i.e., there is exactly one hidden layer) the large and moderate principles hold for quite general pre-activations and in an infinite-dimensional setting.
Area: CS24 - Neural Networks at initialization (Michele Salvi)
Keywords: Asymptotic behavior, Contraction principle, Deep neural networks, ReLU pre-activation function.