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Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators

K. Hornik,M. Stinchcombe,H. White

1989 · DOI: 10.1016/0893-6080(89)90020-8
Neural Networks · 24,482 Citations

TLDR

It is rigorously established that standard multilayer feedforward networks with as few as one hidden layer using arbitrary squashing functions are capable of approximating any Borel measurable function from one finite dimensional space to another to any desired degree of accuracy, provided sufficiently many hidden units are available.