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El Mehdi Achour

4 accepted papers

2024

Only Strict Saddles in the Energy Landscape of Predictive Coding Networks?

NeurIPS 2024poster

Predictive coding (PC) is an energy-based learning algorithm that performs iterative inference over network activities before updating weights. Recent work suggests that PC can converge in fewer learning steps than backpropagation thanks to its inference procedure. However, these advantages are not…

2022

A general approximation lower bound in $L^p$ norm, with applications to feed-forward neural networks

NeurIPS 2022accept

We study the fundamental limits to the expressive power of neural networks. Given two sets $F$, $G$ of real-valued functions, we first prove a general lower bound on how well functions in $F$ can be approximated in $L^p(\mu)$ norm by functions in $G$, for any $p \geq 1$ and any probability measure $…

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