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Global asymptotic stability of neural networks with discontinuous activations

Jiafu Wang1, Lihong Huang, Zhenyuan Guo

  • 1College of Mathematics and Econometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China. jfwangmath@163.com

Neural Networks : the Official Journal of the International Neural Network Society
|May 16, 2009
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