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pith:TSCMCEIA

pith:2018:TSCMCEIAV4FQCFXR63R42K6IJI

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Feedback alignment in deep convolutional networks

Ashok Litwin-Kumar, L.F. Abbott, Theodore H. Moskovitz

arxiv:1812.06488 v2 · 2018-12-12 · cs.NE · cs.LG · stat.ML

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9c84c11100af0b0116f1f6e3cd2bc84a3d50bb833b07ea9b7737545c5325b70d

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arxiv: 1812.06488 · arxiv_version: 1812.06488v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.06488 · pith_short_12: TSCMCEIAV4FQ · pith_short_16: TSCMCEIAV4FQCFXR · pith_short_8: TSCMCEIA

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  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
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