2026
Scaling Laws and Spectra of Shallow Neural Networks in the Feature Learning Regime
Leonardo Defilippis, Yizhou Xu, Julius Girardin, Vittorio Erba, Emanuele Troiani, Lenka Zdeborová +2
ICLR 2026oral
Neural scaling laws underlie many of the recent advances in deep learning, yet their theoretical understanding remains largely confined to linear models. In this work, we present a systematic analysis of scaling laws for quadratic and diagonal neural networks in the feature learning regime. Leveragi…