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The universal approximation theorem asserts that a single hidden layer neural network approximates continuous functions with any desired precision on compact sets. As an existential result, the universal approximation theorem supports the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Wington L. Vital , Guilherme Vieira , Marcos Eduardo Valle

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rapidly being applied to safety-critical domains such as drone and airplane control, motivating techniques for verifying the safety of their behavior. Unfortunately, DNN verification is NP-hard, with current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Matthew Sotoudeh , Aditya V. Thakur

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become a very powerful tool in the approximation of high-dimensional functions. Especially, deep ANNs, consisting of a large number of hidden layers, have been very successfully used in a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Philipp Grohs , Shokhrukh Ibragimov , Arnulf Jentzen , Sarah Koppensteiner

Invertible neural networks based on coupling flows (CF-INNs) have various machine learning applications such as image synthesis and representation learning. However, their desirable characteristics such as analytic invertibility come at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Takeshi Teshima , Isao Ishikawa , Koichi Tojo , Kenta Oono , Masahiro Ikeda , Masashi Sugiyama

This paper discusses various theorems on the approximation capabilities of neural networks (NNs), which are known as universal approximation theorems (UATs). The paper gives a systematic overview of UATs starting from the preliminary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Midhun T Augustine

Recent studies suggest that artificial neural networks (ANNs) that match the spectral properties of the mammalian visual cortex -- namely, the $\sim 1/n$ eigenspectrum of the covariance matrix of neural activities -- achieve higher object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Richard C. Gerum , Cassidy Pirlot , Alona Fyshe , Joel Zylberberg

Most chemical processes, such as distillation, absorption, extraction, and catalytic reactions, are extremely complex processes that are affected by multiple factors. The relationships between their input variables and output variables are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Li Sun , Fei Liang , Wutai Cui

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are one of the most widely employed forms of bio-inspired computation. However the current trend is for ANNs to be structurally homogeneous. Furthermore, this structural homogeneity requires the application…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Andrew Walter , Shimeng Wu , Andy M. Tyrrell , Liam McDaid , Malachy McElholm , Nidhin Thandassery Sumithran , Jim Harkin , Martin A. Trefzer

Universal approximation theory offers a foundational framework to verify neural network expressiveness, enabling principled utilization in real-world applications. However, most existing theoretical constructions are established by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 ZeYu Li , ShiJun Zhang , TieYong Zeng , FengLei Fan

Inverse problems are encountered in many domains of physics, with analytic continuation of the imaginary Green's function into the real frequency domain being a particularly important example. However, the analytic continuation problem is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Romain Fournier , Lei Wang , Oleg V. Yazyev , QuanSheng Wu

Neural network based approximate computing is a universal architecture promising to gain tremendous energy-efficiency for many error resilient applications. To guarantee the approximation quality, existing works deploy two neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Zhenghao Peng , Xuyang Chen , Chengwen Xu , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang , Cewu Lu , Li Jiang

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been employed for a range of modelling and prediction tasks using financial data. However, evidence on their predictive performance, especially for time-series data, has been mixed. Whereas some…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-05-17 Philipp Ratz

Rational and neural network based approximations are efficient tools in modern approximation. These approaches are able to produce accurate approximations to nonsmooth and non-Lipschitz functions, including multivariate domain functions. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Vinesha Peiris , Reinier Diaz Millan , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

The study of universal approximation of arbitrary functions $f: \mathcal{X} \to \mathcal{Y}$ by neural networks has a rich and thorough history dating back to Kolmogorov (1957). In the case of learning finite dimensional maps, many authors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 William H. Guss , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

It is an elementary fact in the scientific literature that the Lipschitz norm of the realization function of a feedforward fully-connected rectified linear unit (ReLU) artificial neural network (ANN) can, up to a multiplicative constant, be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Arnulf Jentzen , Timo Kröger

Universal approximation theorems provide a mathematical explanation for the expressive power of neural networks. They assert that, under mild conditions on the activation function, feedforward neural networks are dense in broad function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Himasish Talukdar

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are computational models inspired by the central nervous system (especially the brain) of animals and are used to estimate or generate unknown approximation functions relied on large amounts of inputs.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Huayu Li

This paper considers implementation of artificial neural networks (ANNs) using molecular computing and DNA based on fractional coding. Prior work had addressed molecular two-layer ANNs with binary inputs and arbitrary weights. In prior work…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Xingyi Liu , Keshab K. Parhi

The purpose of this article is to develop a machinery to study the capacity of deep neural networks (DNNs) to approximate high-dimensional functions. In particular, we show that DNNs have the expressive power to overcome the curse of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Pierfrancesco Beneventano , Patrick Cheridito , Robin Graeber , Arnulf Jentzen , Benno Kuckuck

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been shown to be effective models for different predictive tasks on graph-structured data. Recent work on their expressive power has focused on isomorphism tasks and countable feature spaces. We extend this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Gabriele Corso , Luca Cavalleri , Dominique Beaini , Pietro Liò , Petar Veličković