Composing Global Solutions to Reasoning Tasks via Algebraic Objects in Neural Nets
–Neural Information Processing Systems
We prove rich algebraic structures of the solution space for 2-layer neural networks with quadratic activation and L2 loss, trained on reasoning tasks in Abelian group (e.g., modular addition). Such a rich structure enables analytical construction of global optimal solutions from partial solutions that only satisfy part of the loss, despite its high nonlinearity.
Neural Information Processing Systems
Jun-17-2026, 23:10:49 GMT