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Expressive Capabilities of ANNs

Boolean functions: Every boolean function can be represented by network with single hidden layer but might require exponential (in number of inputs) hidden units

Continuous functions: Every bounded continuous function can be approximated with arbitrarily small error, by network with one hidden layer [Cybenko 1989; Hornik et al. 1989]

Any function can be approximated to arbitrary accuracy by a network with two hidden layers [Cybenko 1988].



Don Patterson 2001-12-13