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Keyword: deep neural network Clear all

8 claims from 4 papers

  1. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Dropout: a simple way to prevent neural networks from overfitting

    Srivastava, Hinton, Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Salakhutdinov · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“This significantly reduces overfitting and gives major improvements over other regularization methods.”
  2. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?

    Ba and Caruana · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“In this extended abstract, we show that shallow feed-forward networks can learn the complex functions previously learned by deep nets and achieve accuracies previously only achievable with deep models.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, in some cases the shallow neural nets can learn these deep functions using a total number of parameters similar to the original deep model.”
  3. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization

    Zhang, Bengio, Hardt, Recht and Vinyals · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Specifically, our experiments establish that state-of-the-art convolutional networks for image classification trained with stochastic gradient methods easily fit a random labeling of the training data.”
    2. Unchecked“This phenomenon is qualitatively unaffected by explicit regularization, and occurs even if we replace the true images by completely unstructured random noise.”
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Toward Data‐Driven Weather and Climate Forecasting: Approximating a Simple General Circulation Model With Deep Learning

    Scher · Geophysical Research Letters · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Additionally, after being initialized with an arbitrary model state, the network can through repeatedly feeding back its predictions into its inputs create a climate run, which has similar climate statistics to the climate of the general circulation model.”
    2. Unchecked“This network climate run shows no long‐term drift, even though no conservation properties were explicitly designed into the network.”
    3. Unchecked“It is shown that it is possible to emulate the dynamics of a simple general circulation model with a deep neural network.”

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