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Artificial neural networks consist of layers of artificial "neurons" which take in information from the previous layer and output information to the next layer. Gradient descent is a common method for updating the weights of each neuron based on training data. While in practice every layer of a neural network has only finitely many neurons, it is beneficial to consider a continuous viewpoint of neural networks with infinitely many neurons in a layer for the sake of developing a theory that explains how ANNs works. In particular, from this viewpoint the process of updating the neuron weights for a shallow neural network can be described by a Wasserstein gradient flow.


==Motivation==
==Motivation==

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Artificial neural networks consist of layers of artificial "neurons" which take in information from the previous layer and output information to the next layer. Gradient descent is a common method for updating the weights of each neuron based on training data. While in practice every layer of a neural network has only finitely many neurons, it is beneficial to consider a continuous viewpoint of neural networks with infinitely many neurons in a layer for the sake of developing a theory that explains how ANNs works. In particular, from this viewpoint the process of updating the neuron weights for a shallow neural network can be described by a Wasserstein gradient flow.

Motivation

Shallow Neural Networks

Continuous Formulation

Minimization Problem

Wasserstein Gradient Flow

Main Results

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