On the Size of Weights for Threshold Gates

  • Authors:
  • Johan Hastad

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

It is proved that if $n$ is a power of 2, then there is a threshold function on $n$ inputs that requires weights of size around $2^{(n\log n)/2-n}$. This almost matches the known upper bounds.