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Mspo: a Machine Learning Hyperparameter Optimization Method for Enhanced Breast Cancer Image Classification

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Adaptive Finite Elements with Large Aspect Ratio. Application to Aluminium Electrolysis

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Emergent Rate-Based Dynamics in Duplicate-Free Populations of Spiking Neurons

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Can spiking neural networks (SNNs) approximate the dynamics of recurrent neural networks? Arguments in classical mean-field theory based on laws of large numbers provide a positive answer when each neuron in the network has many “duplicates”, i.e., other n ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025