TR-A-0024 :1988.5.16

船橋賢一

On the Approximate Realization of Continuous Mappings by Neural Networks

Abstract:In this paper, we prove that any continuous mapping can be approximately realized by Rumelhart-Hinton-Williams' four-layer neural networks whose output functions for hidden units are sigmoid functions. We also show that for the approximate realization of continuous mapping, output functions need not always be sigmoid but can also be the sigmoid-like functions defined in this paper. This fact is proved by applying a lemma to the Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Sprecher theorem.