Abstract:
The paper contains a survey of some results about approximation of functions of several variables by sums of ridge functions with fixed directions. Also, some new theorems are proved, both for uniform approximation and for approximation in L2
. These theorems generalize some results by the author known previously. The paper is finished by the study of the role of ridge functions in a problem of approximation by neural networks.
Keywords:
Ridge function, best approximation, superposition, cycle, path, neural network.
Citation:
V. E. Ismailov, “Approximation by sums of ridge functions with fixed directions”, Algebra i Analiz, 28:6 (2016), 20–69; St. Petersburg Math. J., 28:6 (2017), 741–772