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Start with capacity. The paper describes NCP, its most consistent top performer, as “a sparse network configuration composed of fewer than two dozen LTC neurons,” feeding on a shared 128-dimensional convolutional feature vector produced by the same CNN backbone every architecture uses [ 1 ] . A recurrent core with that few internal states cannot afford to carry much of a busy forest or brick patio’s incidental detail forward through time; it has to compress the incoming feature stream down to whatever handful of dimensions best explains the training labels, at every site, in every season. The liquid equation above adds a second compressive pressure on top of raw capacity: the term 1/τ\tau…

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1/τ1/\tau

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Start with capacity. The paper describes NCP, its most consistent top performer, as “a sparse network configuration composed of fewer than two dozen LTC neurons,” feeding on a shared 128-dimensional convolutional feature vector produced by the same CNN backbone every architecture uses [ 1 ] . A recurrent core with that few internal states cannot afford to carry much of a busy forest or brick patio’s incidental detail forward through time; it has to compress the incoming feature stream down to whatever handful of dimensions best explains the training labels, at every site, in every season. The liquid equation above adds a second compressive pressure on top of raw capacity: the term 1/τ\tau…

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