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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Depth-Width Tradeoffs in Approximating Natural Functions with Neural Networks · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1610.09887/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1610.09887/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Depth-Width Tradeoffs in Approximating Natural Functions with Neural Networks — mentioned by yorwba</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15583253</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1610.09887:15583253</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2017 05:29:15 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;They cite https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09887 for their definition of network depth, which defines it in such a way that e.g. a ReLU network of depth 2 is of the form linear2(ReLu(linear1(input))). That means, depth is the number of linear layers. The &amp;quot;depth-three&amp;quot; model in this paper is a bit strange in that their second layer has only one output, so the third linear layer doesn&amp;#x27;t have any effect. I would have called this &amp;quot;depth two&amp;quot;; but it is internally consistent with their definition of depth. &amp;gt; How is ReLU smooth? It is 1-Lipschitz, which is smooth enough for them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1610.09887/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item></channel></rss>
