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It has previously been reported that the representation that is learned in the first layer of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is highly consistent across initializations and architectures. In this work, we quantify this…
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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in various fields, particularly in the domain of computer vision. However, why this architecture works well remains to be a mystery. In this work we move a small step…
Despite several algorithmic advances in the training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) over the years, their generalization capabilities are still subpar across several pertinent domains, particularly within open-set tasks often found…
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