Lower Bounds for Approximation of Some Classes of Lebesgue Measurable Functions by Sigmoidal Neural Networks

  • Authors:
  • José L. Montaña;Cruz E. Borges

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemáticas, Estadística y Computación, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain 39005;Departamento de Matemáticas, Estadística y Computación, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain 39005

  • Venue:
  • IWANN '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Part I: Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a general method for estimating the distance between a compact subspace K of the space L 1([0,1] s ) of Lebesgue measurable functions defined on the hypercube [0,1] s , and the class of functions computed by artificial neural networks using a single hidden layer, each unit evaluating a sigmoidal activation function. Our lower bounds are stated in terms of an invariant that measures the oscillations of functions of the space K around the origin. As an application we estimate the minimal number of neurons required to approximate bounded functions satisfying uniform Lipschitz conditions of order *** with accuracy *** .