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Statistical Mechanics of Neural Networks

DEC 01, 1988
Studies of disordered systems have generated new insights into the cooperative behavior and emergent computational properties of large, highly connected networks of simple, neuron‐like processors.
Haim Sompolinsky

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Haim Sompolinsky, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

© 1988 American Institute of Physics
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