• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Continuous limits of residual neural networks in case of large input data
  • Contributor: Herty, Michael; Thünen, Anna; Trimborn, Torsten; Visconti, Giuseppe
  • imprint: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022
  • Published in: Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2478/caim-2022-0008
  • ISSN: 2038-0909
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Residual deep neural networks (ResNets) are mathematically described as interacting particle systems. In the case of infinitely many layers the ResNet leads to a system of coupled system of ordinary differential equations known as neural differential equations. For large scale input data we derive a mean–field limit and show well–posedness of the resulting description. Further, we analyze the existence of solutions to the training process by using both a controllability and an optimal control point of view. Numerical investigations based on the solution of a formal optimality system illustrate the theoretical findings.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access