A STUDY OF SIMULTANEOUS APPROXIMATION BY NEURAL NETWORKS

This paper shows the degree of simultaneous neural network approximation for a target function in $C^r$[-1, 1] and its first derivative. We use the Jackson's theorem for differentiable functions to get a degree of approximation to a target function by algebraic polynomials and trigonometric polynomials. We also make use of the de La Vall$\grave{e}$e Poussin sum to get an approximation order by algebraic polynomials to the derivative of a target function. By showing that the divided difference with a generalized translation network can be arbitrarily closed to algebraic polynomials on [-1, 1], we obtain the degree of simultaneous approximation.