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Digital spiking neuron and its learning for approximation of various spike-trains

Hiroyuki Torikai1, Atsuo Funew, Toshimichi Saito

  • 1Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-8531, Japan. torikai@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

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