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ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton · Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2012)

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Principal Contribution

Demonstrated dramatic error reduction on ImageNet using deep CNNs trained on GPUs with ReLU, Dropout, and data augmentation.

Operational Relevance

Triggered the modern deep learning revolution and GPU hardware acceleration across the entire technology industry.

Assumptions

  • Massive labeled datasets (ImageNet) combined with parallel GPU compute unlock deep hierarchical representation capacity

Limitations

  • Heavy fully connected classification heads contained 60M parameters, prone to overfitting without 50% dropout

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