2014 NIPS NeurIPS 2014

Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?

Abstract

Currently, deep neural networks are the state of the art on problems such as speech recognition and computer vision. In this paper we empirically demonstrate that shallow feed-forward nets can learn the complex functions previously learned by deep nets and achieve accuracies previously only achievable with deep models. Moreover, in some cases the shallow nets can learn these deep functions using the same number of parameters as the original deep models. On the TIMIT phoneme recognition and CIFAR-10 image recognition tasks, shallow nets can be trained that perform similarly to complex, well-engineered, deeper convolutional models.

The Questioner
🌱 Topic Pioneer — Knowledge Distillation
🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Deep Learning and Machine Learning
📈 Trend Setter — Model Compression
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — shallow network
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — model compression
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio