Recurrent neural networks are universal approximators

Abstract

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) have been developed for a better understanding and analysis of open dynamical systems. Still the question often arises if RNN are able to map every open dynamical system, which would be desirable for a broad spectrum of applications. In this article we give a proof for the universal approximation ability of RNN in state space model form and even extend it to Error Correction and Normalized Recurrent Neural Networks.