Deep Neural Network Structures Solving Variational Inequalities

We propose a novel theoretical framework to investigate deep neural networks using the formalism of proximal fixed point methods for solving variational inequalities. We first show that almost all activation functions used in neural networks are actually proximity operators. This leads to an algorithmic model alternating firmly nonexpansive and linear operators. We derive new results on averaged operator iterations to establish the convergence of this model, and show that the limit of the resulting algorithm is a solution to a variational inequality. In general, this limiting output does not solve any minimization problem.

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internal report, NCSU/CentraleSupelec

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