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pith:2019:XUM2H5WVL763W4TY4ULEIAWPZK

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A Brain-inspired Algorithm for Training Highly Sparse Neural Networks

Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Joost Pieterse, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Raymond Veldhuis, Shiwei Liu, Zahra Atashgahi

arxiv:1903.07138 v3 · 2019-03-17 · cs.NE · cs.LG

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bd19a3f6d55ffdbb7278e5164402cfca9bc6a59729697c669cb032ffb4f2ccdc

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arxiv: 1903.07138 · arxiv_version: 1903.07138v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.07138 · pith_short_12: XUM2H5WVL763 · pith_short_16: XUM2H5WVL763W4TY · pith_short_8: XUM2H5WV

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XUM2H5WVL763W4TY4ULEIAWPZK \
  | 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: bd19a3f6d55ffdbb7278e5164402cfca9bc6a59729697c669cb032ffb4f2ccdc

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