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Quite. It's not hard to come up with models or families of functions which share this property.

What matters is not only whether they can learn it but how much data they need to learn it to a given degree of accuracy. This is the kind of question addressed by nonparametric statistics and statistical learning theory.




This is an important statement and should be upvoted more. Case in point: "the Weierstrass approximation theorem states that every continuous function defined on a closed interval [a, b] can be uniformly approximated as closely as desired by a polynomial function."




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