no code implementations • 30 Jul 2020 • Deanna Needell, Aaron A. Nelson, Rayan Saab, Palina Salanevich, Olov Schavemaker
We provide a (corrected) rigorous proof that the Igelnik and Pao construction is a universal approximator for continuous functions on compact domains, with approximation error decaying asymptotically like $O(1/\sqrt{n})$ for the number $n$ of network nodes.