Minimum Width for Universal Approximation

Authors: Sejun Park, Chulhee Yun, Jaeho Lee, Jinwoo Shin

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical In this work, we provide the first definitive result in this direction for networks using the RELU activation functions: The minimum width required for the universal approximation of the Lp functions is exactly max{dx + 1, dy}. We also prove that the same conclusion does not hold for the uniform approximation with RELU, but does hold with an additional threshold activation function. Our proof technique can be also used to derive a tighter upper bound on the minimum width required for the universal approximation using networks with general activation functions. ... We note that all formal proofs of Theorems 1 4 are presented in Appendix.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Sejun Park Chulhee Yun Jaeho Lee Jinwoo Shin KAIST AI MIT EECS KAIST EE emails: sejun.park@kaist.ac.kr, chulheey@mit.edu, jaeho-lee@kaist.ac.kr, jinwoos@kaist.ac.kr
Pseudocode No The paper describes abstract constructions like a 'coding scheme' but does not include any formal pseudocode blocks or algorithm listings.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any statement or link regarding the release of open-source code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not use or describe any datasets for training or evaluation.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not involve empirical validation, therefore, it does not specify dataset splits for training, validation, or testing.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not report on experiments, therefore, no hardware specifications are mentioned.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not describe any implementation details or software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not report on experiments, thus no experimental setup details are provided.