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Comment by sgt101

3 years ago

Universal function approximator == universal function approximator

Universal approximation theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...

NAND is a universal logic gate; from which all classical functions can be approximated.

CCNOT and Hadamard are universal logic gates with which all (?) quantum functions/transforms can be approximated.

Turing machines can also be used as universal function approximators. But I'm not sure it makes sense to put them in the same category as the other two.

  • I would love to put them in the same category as the other two. In fact I’ve spent quite a lot if time thinking about it / experimenting. Wouldn’t it be great if we could somehow train on data and get a small Turing machine instead of a huge neural network?