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A ‘programming’ framework for recurrent neural networks

A ‘programming’-like approach provides a one-step algorithm to find network parameters for recurrent neural networks that can model complex dynamical systems.

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Fig. 1: Programming of a recurrent neural network.

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Beiran, M., Spencer-Salmon, C.A. & Rajan, K. A ‘programming’ framework for recurrent neural networks. Nat Mach Intell 5, 570–571 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00674-w

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