stat.MLApr 25, 2026

Explicit integral representations and quantitative bounds for two-layer ReLU networks

Authors: Anthony Lee

Organizations: School of Mathematics, University of Bristol

Abstract

An approach to construct explicit integral representations for two-layer ReLU networks is presented, which provides relatively simple representations for any multivariate polynomial. Quantitative bounds are provided for a particular, sharpened ReLU integral representation, which involves a harmonic extension and a projection. The bounds demonstrate that functions can be approximated with L2(D)L^{2}(\mathcal{D}) errors that do not depend explicitly on dimension or degree, but rather the coefficients of their monomial expansions and the distribution D\mathcal{D}. We also present a connection to the RKHS of the exponential kernel K(x,y)=exp(x,y)K(x,y)=\exp\left(\left\langle x,y\right\rangle \right), and a very simple integral representation involving additionally multiplication via a fixed function which has better quantitative bounds.

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