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I'm reading the cornerstone paper Sequence to Sequence Learning
with Neural Networks by Ilya Sutskever and Quoc Le. On the first page, it briefly mentions that:



A surprising example of the power of DNNs is their ability to sort
N N-bit numbers using only 2 hidden layers of quadratic size


Can anyone briefly outline how to sort numbers using only 2 hidden layers?










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    Can anyone briefly outline how to sort numbers using only 2 hidden layers?










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      A surprising example of the power of DNNs is their ability to sort
      N N-bit numbers using only 2 hidden layers of quadratic size


      Can anyone briefly outline how to sort numbers using only 2 hidden layers?










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      A surprising example of the power of DNNs is their ability to sort
      N N-bit numbers using only 2 hidden layers of quadratic size


      Can anyone briefly outline how to sort numbers using only 2 hidden layers?







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          I'd imagine one could come up with weights manually to do the job exactly, but maybe the point is to be able to train one? A couple of examples:



          How to sort numbers using Convolutional Neural Network?



          https://github.com/primaryobjects/nnsorting






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                How to sort numbers using Convolutional Neural Network?



                https://github.com/primaryobjects/nnsorting






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                How to sort numbers using Convolutional Neural Network?



                https://github.com/primaryobjects/nnsorting







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