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Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) have proven to be a powerful modeling tool for approximating (interpolation) and forecasting (extrapolation) irregularly sampled time series data. However, their performance degrades…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Hammad A. Ayyubi , Yi Yao , Ajay Divakaran

Measure-preserving neural networks are well-developed invertible models, however, their approximation capabilities remain unexplored. This paper rigorously analyses the approximation capabilities of existing measure-preserving neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Aiqing Zhu , Pengzhan Jin , Yifa Tang

Neural ordinary differential equations (Neural ODEs) propose the idea that a sequence of layers in a neural network is just a discretisation of an ODE, and thus can instead be directly modelled by a parameterised ODE. This idea has had…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Christina Runkel , Ander Biguri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Is there any theoretical guarantee for the approximation ability of neural networks? The answer to this question is the "Universal Approximation Theorem for Neural Networks". This theorem states that a neural network is dense in a certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Takato Nishijima

In this note, we revisit the problem of flow approximation properties of neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs). The approximation properties have been considered as a flow controllability problem in recent literature. The neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Karthik Elamvazhuthi

While it is widely known that neural networks are universal approximators of continuous functions, a less known and perhaps more powerful result is that a neural network with a single hidden layer can approximate accurately any nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Lu Lu , Pengzhan Jin , George Em Karniadakis

Neural networks can be fragile to input noise and adversarial attacks. In this work, we consider Convolutional Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs), a family of continuous-depth neural networks represented by dynamical systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Muhammad Zakwan , Liang Xu , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Fourier neural operators (FNOs) have recently been proposed as an effective framework for learning operators that map between infinite-dimensional spaces. We prove that FNOs are universal, in the sense that they can approximate any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Nikola Kovachki , Samuel Lanthaler , Siddhartha Mishra

In this paper, we explain the universal approximation capabilities of deep residual neural networks through geometric nonlinear control. Inspired by recent work establishing links between residual networks and control systems, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Paulo Tabuada , Bahman Gharesifard

We propose a learning paradigm for the numerical approximation of differential invariants of planar curves. Deep neural-networks' (DNNs) universal approximation properties are utilized to estimate geometric measures. The proposed framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Roy Velich , Ron Kimmel

We propose a learning paradigm for numerical approximation of differential invariants of planar curves. Deep neural-networks' (DNNs) universal approximation properties are utilized to estimate geometric measures. The proposed framework is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Roy Velich , Ron Kimmel

We study shallow and deep neural networks whose inputs range over a general topological space. The model is built from a prescribed family of continuous feature maps and reduces to multilayer feedforward networks in the Euclidean case. We…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Vugar Ismailov

The universal approximation theorem states that a neural network with one hidden layer can approximate continuous functions on compact sets with any desired precision. This theorem supports using neural networks for various applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Marcos Eduardo Valle , Wington L. Vital , Guilherme Vieira

The classical Universal Approximation Theorem holds for neural networks of arbitrary width and bounded depth. Here we consider the natural `dual' scenario for networks of bounded width and arbitrary depth. Precisely, let $n$ be the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Patrick Kidger , Terry Lyons

We analyze Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) from a control theoretical perspective to address some of the main properties and paradigms of Deep Learning (DL), in particular, data classification and universal approximation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Domènec Ruiz-Balet , Enrique Zuazua

The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most prominent neural network architectures in deep learning. Despite its widespread adoption, our understanding of its universal approximation properties has been limited due to its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Geonho Hwang , Myungjoo Kang

Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are an emerging class of deep learning models for dynamical systems. They are particularly useful for learning an ODE vector field from observed trajectories (i.e., inverse problems). We here…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Katharina Ott , Michael Tiemann , Philipp Hennig

The unprecedented availability of large-scale datasets in neuroscience has spurred the exploration of artificial deep neural networks (DNNs) both as empirical tools and as models of natural neural systems. Their appeal lies in their ability…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Ahmed ElGazzar , Marcel van Gerven

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) are a novel neural architecture, built around initial value problems with learned dynamics which are solved during inference. Thought to be inherently more robust against adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Mustafa Zeqiri , Mark Niklas Müller , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs), which are the continuous-time analog of Residual Neural Networks (ResNets), have gained significant attention in recent years. Similarly, Neural Delay Differential Equations (Neural…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Christian Kuehn , Sara-Viola Kuntz