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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are naturally suited for speech processing tasks due to their specific dynamics, which allows them to handle temporal data. However, the threshold-based generation of spikes in SNNs intuitively causes an…

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The electromagnetic nucleon form-factors data are studied with artificial feed forward neural networks. As a result the unbiased model-independent form-factor parametrizations are evaluated together with uncertainties. The Bayesian approach…

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The extended kernel ridge regression (EKRR) method with odd-even effects was adopted to improve the description of the nuclear charge radius using five commonly used nuclear models. These are: (i) the isospin dependent $A^{1/3}$ formula,…

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A deep neural network (DNN) model consisting of two hidden layers was proposed for predicting the immediate environments of specific atoms based on X-ray absorption near-edge spectra (XANES). The output layer of the DNN can be adjusted to…

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Due to the growing adoption of deep neural networks in many fields of science and engineering, modeling and estimating their uncertainties has become of primary importance. Despite the growing literature about uncertainty quantification in…

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