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pith:VRDGT3HI

pith:2020:VRDGT3HI2UWDEPKQLRSLMJ7DC2

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A Spike in Performance: Training Hybrid-Spiking Neural Networks with Quantized Activation Functions

Aaron R. Voelker, Chris Eliasmith, Daniel Rasmussen

arxiv:2002.03553 v2 · 2020-02-10 · cs.LG · q-bio.NC · stat.ML

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Unsupervised Sparse Coding-based Spiking Neural Network for Real-time Spike Sorting

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ac4669ece8d52c323d505c64b627e316b37ed78caf80fb934ebe06b429aad665

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arxiv: 2002.03553 · arxiv_version: 2002.03553v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.03553 · pith_short_12: VRDGT3HI2UWD · pith_short_16: VRDGT3HI2UWDEPKQ · pith_short_8: VRDGT3HI

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VRDGT3HI2UWDEPKQLRSLMJ7DC2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ac4669ece8d52c323d505c64b627e316b37ed78caf80fb934ebe06b429aad665

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    "submitted_at": "2020-02-10T05:24:27Z",
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