cs.NEMar 2, 2026

Uniform-in-time concentration in two-layer neural networks via transportation inequalities

Authors: Arnaud Guillin, Boris Nectoux, Paul Stos

Organizations: LMBP · Université Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS UMR 6620, LMBP, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Abstract

We quantify, uniformly over time and with high probability, the discrepancy between the predictions of a two-layer neural network trained by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and their mean-field limit, for quadratic loss and ridge regularization. As a key ingredient, we establish T p transportation inequalities (p ∈\in {1, 2}) for the law of the SGD parameters, with explicit constants independent of the iteration index. We then prove uniform-in-time concentration of the empirical parameter measure around its mean-field limit in the Wasserstein distance W 1 , and we translate these bounds into prediction-error estimates against a fixed test function ΦΦ. We also derive analogous concentration bounds in the sliced-Wasserstein distance SW 1 , leading to dimension-free rates.

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