Iconic training and effective information: Evaluating meaning in discrete neural networks

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-09-01, Issue , 2009, Pages 2-10

  Aleksander, Igor ^a   Gamez, David ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTION PATTERNS; DISCRETE NEURAL NETWORKS; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL STATE; RECENT TRENDS;

DATA PROCESSING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77954222886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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