A Nonlinear Singular Value Theory for Neural Networks
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arXiv:2605.06938v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recently Brown et al. [2025] established a singular value decomposition (SVD) for maps (especially nonlinear) satisfying certain norm conditions. We prove that most modern neural architectures admit this nonlinear SVD (NLSVD) representation---with no change in input--output behavior---and enumerate the classes covered. In this factorization the network is a left-invertible nonlinear map followed by a final linear layer. Moreover, the left-invertible factor is norm-preserving, so distances in the embedding (activations before the final l
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- arXiv:2605.06938v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recently Brown et al.
- [2025] established a singular value decomposition (SVD) for maps (especially nonlinear) satisfying certain norm conditions.
- We prove that most modern neural architectures admit this nonlinear SVD (NLSVD) representation---with no change in input--output behavior---and enumerate the classes covered.
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