Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have achieved remarkable success, but suffer from limited generalization.
To overcome this limitation, a novel function approximator called Deep Sturm--Liouville (DSL) is introduced.
DSL enables continuous 1D regularization along field lines in the input space and integrates the Sturm--Liouville Theorem (SLT) into the deep learning framework.
DSL achieves competitive performance and improved sample efficiency on diverse multivariate datasets.