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Storage capacity. Competitive adaptation is capable of fairly high information
storage capacity relative to the number of weights in the network; back-
propagation has a very high capacity.
Comparing Neural Networks and Other Information
Processing Methods
Several information processing techniques have capabilities similar to the neural net-
work adaptation algorithms described earlier. Despite the possibility of comparable
solutions to a given problem, several additional aspects of a neural network solution
are appealing, including fault tolerance through the large number of connections,
parallel ...