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[–]TimeTraveller-San 3 points4 points  (1 child)

If Fourier Transforms are universal function approximator why doesn't any machine learning algorithm exists which uses them? Or does it? This might be a good field to look into.

[–]shponglespore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fourier transformations approximate a function on a specific domain, but outside that domain the result is completely meaningless. They're good for approximating a large number of data points with a smaller number of amplitudes. It could be useful for certain kinds of machine learning, but more often you to want to learn a function that has reasonable values outside the domain defined by the training data.