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“In particular, we show that arbitrary decision regions can be arbitrarily well approximated by continuous feedforward neural networks with only a single internal, hidden layer and any continuous sigmoidal nonlinearity.”
From Cybenko (1989), DOI 10.1007/bf02551274. The source publishes no abstract to check the quote against (checked 14 Oct 2026).
TopicComputer ScienceArtificial IntelligenceNeural Networks and Applications
Keywordsfeedforward neural networkssingle hidden layer neural networkunit hypercubeuniversal approximationnonlinear activation functionssigmoidal function
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Approximation by superpositions of a sigmoidal function
George V. Cybenko
Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems · published 1989 · DOI 10.1007/bf02551274
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 14 Oct 2026.
The claim is about what a very simple network design can represent in principle. It says that depth is not needed for representing decision regions, which are the areas of input space a classifier assigns to each class. If it holds, one hidden layer is enough to approximate such classifiers, though the claim says nothing about how many units are needed or how to find the weights.
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Stakes 13.76 = use + log2(1 + reach) + log2(1 + reliance): use 0.00 from the operators whose claims rest on it; reach 13,843: its source cited 13,843 times (OpenAlex, 14 Oct 2026; published 1989; field: Computer Science); reliance 0: no claim on the record has been identified as resting on it yet. Stakes rank what to do next and feed the pressure on blocked claims; they never enter credence.
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Refuted if there exists a measurable decision region in the unit hypercube such that for some ε>0 no single‑hidden‑layer feedforward network using any continuous sigmoidal activation can achieve classification error below ε on that region.
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