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Run Nengo models on Intel's Loihi chip
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Allow population axons on dense connections #280

Closed hunse closed 4 years ago

hunse commented 4 years ago

Dense connections do not use the compartment offset (i.e. it's always 0 for all axons), so there's no reason we couldn't use population axons here to reduce the number of output/input axons. This is akin to expressing a dense connection as a convolutional connection with a 1x1 image shape (and maybe that's a viable workaround for doing this in the current setup).

drasmuss commented 4 years ago

Result of internal discussion is that we'll just recommend manually doing the 1x1 convolutional connection for now, unless more demand crops up for this.