Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition - Casey Primozic's Homepage

While training small neural networks to perform binary addition, a surprising solution emerged that allows the network to solve the problem very effectively. This post explores the mechanism behind that solution and how it relates to analog electronics.

Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition - Casey Primozic's Homepage cprimozic.net | @ameobea10 cprimozic.net @ameobea10 • Portfolio • Contact • Blog • Professional Experience Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition 2023-01-15 Subscribe to Blog via RSS Training the Network Unique Activation Functions Dissecting the Model The Network's Clever Solution Summary Epilogue There's a ton of attention lately on massive neural networks with billions of parameters, and rightly so. By combining huge parameter counts with powerful architec

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