Functions

2026-01-09

chapter 4: a visual proof that neural nets can compute any function

  • one of the most striking facts about neural networks is that they can compute any function. 𐃏
  • we will always be able to do better than some given error \(\epsilon\)
  • what’s even crazier is that this universality holds even if we restrict our networks to just have a single layer intermediate between the input and output neurons:
  • one of the original papers publishing this result leveraged the Hahn-Banach Theorem, the Riesz Representation theorem and some Fourier Analysis!

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