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High-Performance Neural Networks for Visual Object Classification

Artificial Intelligence 2011-02-02 v1 Neural and Evolutionary Computing

Abstract

We present a fast, fully parameterizable GPU implementation of Convolutional Neural Network variants. Our feature extractors are neither carefully designed nor pre-wired, but rather learned in a supervised way. Our deep hierarchical architectures achieve the best published results on benchmarks for object classification (NORB, CIFAR10) and handwritten digit recognition (MNIST), with error rates of 2.53%, 19.51%, 0.35%, respectively. Deep nets trained by simple back-propagation perform better than more shallow ones. Learning is surprisingly rapid. NORB is completely trained within five epochs. Test error rates on MNIST drop to 2.42%, 0.97% and 0.48% after 1, 3 and 17 epochs, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1102.0183,
  title  = {High-Performance Neural Networks for Visual Object Classification},
  author = {Dan C. Cireşan and Ueli Meier and Jonathan Masci and Luca M. Gambardella and Jürgen Schmidhuber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0183},
  year   = {2011}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables

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