Discriminative Restricted Boltzmann Machines are Universal Approximators for Discrete Data

This report proofs that discriminative Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are universal approximators for discrete data by adapting existing universal approximation proofs for generative RBMs. Discriminative Restricted Boltzmann Machines are Universal Approximators for Discrete Data Laurens van der Maaten Pattern Recognition & Bioinformatics Laboratory Delft University of Technology