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AlexNet's improbable success explained by author Simon Prince

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AlexNet, a groundbreaking deep learning model, defied expectations by successfully training on the ImageNet dataset despite its immense complexity. Its author, Simon Prince, highlights that the model, with 60 million parameters and operating in a 150,000-dimensional space, should not have achieved such results given its training from random weights with noisy gradient descent. Prince's insights are detailed in his book "Understanding Deep Learning." AI

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AlexNet's improbable success explained by author Simon Prince

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  1. Machine Learning Street Talk TIER_1 English(EN) · Machine Learning Street Talk ·

    AlexNet Should Never Have Worked (Simon Prince)

    Simon Prince on why AlexNet should never have worked. It had 60 million parameters, orders of magnitude more than the vision models of its time. Its input was a 150,000-dimensional space. It was trained from random weights with noisy gradient descent. Yet it fit ImageNet: "jaw-dr…

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