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Title: LEARN Codes: Inventing Low-Latency Codes via Recurrent Neural Networks
Award ID(s):
1929955 1703403 1908003 1651236
NSF-PAR ID:
10168461
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
Volume:
1
Issue:
1
ISSN:
2641-8770
Page Range / eLocation ID:
207 to 216
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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