2018

Backprop Evolution

Alber, Maximilian, Bello, Irwan, Zoph, Barret et al.

Understand

The back-propagation algorithm is the cornerstone of deep learning.

  • Despite its importance, few variations of the algorithm have been attempted.
  • This work presents an approach to discover new variations of the back-propagation equation.
  • We use a domain specific lan- guage to describe update equations as a list of primitive functions.

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