# Learning Deep ReLU Networks Is Fixed-Parameter Tractable

@article{Chen2022LearningDR,
title={Learning Deep ReLU Networks Is Fixed-Parameter Tractable},
author={Sitan Chen and Adam R. Klivans and Raghu Meka},
journal={2021 IEEE 62nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)},
year={2022},
pages={696-707}
}
• Published 28 September 2020
• Computer Science, Mathematics
• 2021 IEEE 62nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)
We consider the problem of learning an unknown ReLU network with respect to Gaussian inputs and obtain the first nontrivial results for networks of depth more than two. We give an algorithm whose running time is a fixed polynomial in the ambient dimension and some (exponentially large) function of only the network's parameters. Our results provably cannot be obtained using gradient-based methods and give the first example of a class of efficiently learnable neural networks that gradient descent…

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