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by Bromskloss 3684 days ago
> people who think you can just give neural networks anything and output anything, and it will work like magic.

What _is_ the proper method?

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Well, there is a variety of possible answers here. Giving the direct integer ("1", "23") to a simple deep network won't work.

- RNN with LSTM might be a better approach, since it will more based on the value of the ordered bits than their "disposition", and could scale to an arbitrary high number.

- @zardo mentioned Pointer Network (https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03134). It looks to solve this kind of problems but honestly I'm discovering it now.

- Give the base 3 and 5 of the input would be the fastest solution. (but since it's kind of hardcoding part of the solution, it's more a trick than a general solution).

Can anyone correct me what if I got something wrong here? Did I missed something?