Approximation bounds for smooth functions in C(ℝd) by neural and mixture networks

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 969-978

  Maiorov, Vitaly ^b   Meir, Ron S ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Approximation bounds; Mixture of experts; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; POLYNOMIALS;

APPROXIMATION BOUNDS;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0032166654     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.712173     Document Type: Article

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