2016

Demystifying ResNet

Li, Sihan, Jiao, Jiantao, Han, Yanjun et al.

Understand

The Residual Network (ResNet), proposed in He et al.

  • (2015), utilized shortcut connections to significantly reduce the difficulty of training, which resulted in great performance boosts in terms of both training and generalization error.
  • It was empirically observed in He et al.
  • (2015) that stacking more layers of residual blocks with shortcut 2 results in smaller training error, while it is not true for shortcut of length 1 or 3.

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