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Image Augmentations are widely used to reduce overfitting in neural networks. However, the explainability of their benefits largely remains a mystery. We study which layers of residual neural networks (ResNets) are most affected by…

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The performance of a classifier depends on the tuning of its parame ters. In this paper, we have experimented the impact of various tuning parameters on the performance of a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). In the ex perimental…

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Global pooling layers are an essential part of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). They are used to aggregate activations of spatial locations to produce a fixed-size vector in several state-of-the-art CNNs. Global average pooling or…

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