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Equation 6 · Part 1 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Post-CMOS, Neuromorphic, Photonic, and Quantum AI Compute

Symbol vecx

x⃗\vec{x}
x⃗\vec{x}

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vecx is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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rather than compute x⃗\vec{x} itself in full — is not framed as a machine-learning problem in the paper. But it is one of the most common subroutines inside machine-learning problems: linear regression, principal component analysis, and support vector machines all reduce, at some stage, to solving or approximating a…

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