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4 claims from 3 papers

1. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Optimal Brain Damage

   LeCun, Denker and Solla · 1989

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   1. Unchecked“By removing unimportant weights from a network, several improvements can be expected: better generalization, fewer training examples required, and improved speed of learning and/or classification.”

2. 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.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine: Unifying Space and Relational Memory through Generalization in the Hippocampal Formation

   Whittington, Müller, Mark et al. · Cell · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“After learning, TEM entorhinal cells display diverse properties resembling apparently bespoke spatial responses, such as grid, band, border, and object-vector cells.”