Qualitative neural network approximation over R and C: Elementary proofs for analytic and polynomial activation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13410v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:36:13 GMT
• Title: Qualitative neural network approximation over R and C: Elementary proofs for analytic and polynomial activation
• Authors: Josiah Park and Stephan Wojtowytsch
• Abstract summary: We prove approximations in classes of deep and shallow neural networks with analytic activation functions. We show that fully connected and residual networks of large depth with activation functions can approximate any under certain width requirements.
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• Abstract: In this article, we prove approximation theorems in classes of deep and shallow neural networks with analytic activation functions by elementary arguments. We prove for both real and complex networks with non-polynomial activation that the closure of the class of neural networks coincides with the closure of the space of polynomials. The closure can further be characterized by the Stone-Weierstrass theorem (in the real case) and Mergelyan's theorem (in the complex case). In the real case, we further prove approximation results for networks with higher-dimensional harmonic activation and orthogonally projected linear maps. We further show that fully connected and residual networks of large depth with polynomial activation functions can approximate any polynomial under certain width requirements. All proofs are entirely elementary.

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