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The 2021 paper CoFrNets: Interpretable Neural Architecture Inspired by Continued Fractions (Puri et al., 2021)1 investigates the use of continued fractions in neural network design.

The paper takes 13 pages to assert: continued fractions (just like mlps) are universal approximators.

Ultimately, they take the well-defined concept of Generalized Continued Fractions and call them CoFrNets.

Honestly, the paper is full of pretentious nonsense like this:

Simple continued fractions are mathematical expressions of the form:

Continued fractions have been used by mathematicians to:

Achille Brocot, a clockmaker, 1861 used continued fractions to design gears for his watches

Even Ramanujan’s math tricks utilised continued fractions (Barrow, 2000)5

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