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We study the approximation of shift-invariant or equivariant functions by deep fully convolutional networks from the dynamical systems perspective. We prove that deep residual fully convolutional networks and their continuous-layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ting Lin , Zuowei Shen , Qianxiao Li

Functional data that are nonnegative and have a constrained integral can be considered as samples of one-dimensional density functions. Such data are ubiquitous. Due to the inherent constraints, densities do not live in a vector space and,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Alexander Petersen , Hans-Georg Müller

We study the approximation of measurable functions on the hypercube by functions arising from affine neural networks. Our main achievement is an approximation of any measurable function $f \colon W_n \to [-1,1]$ up to a prescribed precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Andreas Thom

We introduce WARP (Weight-space Adaptive Recurrent Prediction), a simple yet powerful model that unifies weight-space learning with linear recurrence to redefine sequence modeling. Unlike conventional recurrent neural networks (RNNs) which…

The field of artificial neural networks is expected to strongly benefit from recent developments of quantum computers. In particular, quantum machine learning, a class of quantum algorithms which exploit qubits for creating trainable neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Marco Maronese , Claudio Destri , Enrico Prati

The celebrated universal approximation theorems for neural networks roughly state that any reasonable function can be arbitrarily well-approximated by a network whose parameters are appropriately chosen real numbers. This paper examines the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 C. Sinan Güntürk , Weilin Li

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) are an analog of classical neural networks in the world of quantum computing, which are represented by a unitary matrix with trainable parameters. Inspired by the universal approximation property of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Ariel Neufeld , Philipp Schmocker , Viet Khoa Tran

We present a numerical scheme for computation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) weights, which stems from the Universal Approximation Theorem, avoiding laborious iterations. The proposed algorithm adheres to the underlying theory, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Nikolaos P. Bakas , Andreas Langousis , Mihalis Nicolaou , Savvas A. Chatzichristofis

We give a geometric construction of neural networks that separate disjoint compact subsets of $\Bbb R^n$, and use it to obtain a constructive universal approximation theorem. Specifically, we show that networks with two hidden layers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Chanyoung Sung

Deep neural networks (DNNs) lack the precise semantics and definitive probabilistic interpretation of probabilistic graphical models (PGMs). In this paper, we propose an innovative solution by constructing infinite tree-structured PGMs that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-25 Boyao Li , Alexander J. Thomson , Houssam Nassif , Matthew M. Engelhard , David Page

We derive upper bounds on the Wasserstein distance ($W_1$), with respect to $\sup$-norm, between any continuous $\mathbb{R}^d$ valued random field indexed by the $n$-sphere and the Gaussian, based on Stein's method. We develop a novel…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Larry Goldstein , Nathan Ross , Adil Salim

The classical universal approximation (UA) theorem for neural networks establishes mild conditions under which a feedforward neural network can approximate a continuous function $f$ with arbitrary accuracy. A recent result shows that neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Geonho Hwang , Wonyeol Lee , Yeachan Park , Sejun Park , Feras Saad

This work studies approximation based on single-hidden-layer feedforward and recurrent neural networks with randomly generated internal weights. These methods, in which only the last layer of weights and a few hyperparameters are optimized,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Lukas Gonon , Lyudmila Grigoryeva , Juan-Pablo Ortega

As a generalization of the work in [Lee et al., 2017], this note briefly discusses when the prior of a neural network output follows a Gaussian process, and how a neural-network-induced Gaussian process is formulated. The posterior mean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Mengwu Guo

Dealing with massive data is a challenging task for machine learning. An important aspect of machine learning is function approximation. In the context of massive data, some of the commonly used tools for this purpose are sparsity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Hrushikesh N Mhaskar

We study the universality of complex-valued neural networks with bounded widths and arbitrary depths. Under mild assumptions, we give a full description of those activation functions $\varrho:\mathbb{C}\to \mathbb{C}$ that have the property…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Paul Geuchen , Thomas Jahn , Hannes Matt

We study multivariate integration and approximation for functions belonging to a weighted reproducing kernel Hilbert space based on half-period cosine functions in the worst-case setting. The weights in the norm of the function space depend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Christian Irrgeher , Peter Kritzer , Friedrich Pillichshammer

Using Stein's method techniques introduced by Chatterjee (2008) and further extended by Kasprzak and Peccati (2022) and by Lachi\`eze-Rey and Peccati (2017), we derive novel quantitative bounds on the convergence in distribution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Lucia Celli

A three-hidden-layer neural network with super approximation power is introduced. This network is built with the floor function ($\lfloor x\rfloor$), the exponential function ($2^x$), the step function ($1_{x\geq 0}$), or their compositions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zuowei Shen , Haizhao Yang , Shijun Zhang

This paper presents a transformative framework for artificial neural networks over graded vector spaces, tailored to model hierarchical and structured data in fields like algebraic geometry and physics. By exploiting the algebraic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tony Shaska