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# Weight Sharing is Crucial to Succesful Optimization

@article{ShalevShwartz2017WeightSI,
title={Weight Sharing is Crucial to Succesful Optimization},
author={Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Ohad Shamir and Shaked Shammah},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2017},
volume={abs/1706.00687}
}
• Published 2 June 2017
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• ArXiv
Exploiting the great expressive power of Deep Neural Network architectures, relies on the ability to train them. While current theoretical work provides, mostly, results showing the hardness of this task, empirical evidence usually differs from this line, with success stories in abundance. A strong position among empirically successful architectures is captured by networks where extensive weight sharing is used, either by Convolutional or Recurrent layers. Additionally, characterizing specific… Expand

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