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Distilling data into code

One of the greatest limitations of deep neural networks is the difficulty of interpreting what they learn from the data. Deep distilling addresses this problem by extracting human-comprehensible and executable code from observations.

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Fig. 1: Deep distilling architecture.

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Bakarji, J. Distilling data into code. Nat Comput Sci 4, 92–93 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-024-00598-4

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