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Striving for Simplicity: The All Convolutional Net

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Most modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used for object recognition are built using the same principles: Alternating convolution and max-pooling layers followed by a small number of fully connected layers. We re-evaluate the state of the art for object recognition from small images with convolutional networks, questioning the necessity of different components in the pipeline. We find that max-pooling can simply be replaced by a convolutional layer with increased stride without loss in accuracy on several image recognition benchmarks. Following this finding -- and building on other recent work for finding simple network structures -- we propose a new architecture that consists solely of convolutional layers and yields competitive or state of the art performance on several object recognition datasets (CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, ImageNet). To analyze the network we introduce a new variant of the "deconvolution approach" for visualizing features learned by CNNs, which can be applied to a broader range of network structures than existing approaches.

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Dataset Distillation

cs.LG · 2018-11-27 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

Dataset distillation creates a tiny synthetic training set that, when used with a fixed network initialization, produces models whose performance approximates that of models trained on the full original dataset.

Spectral Integrated Gradients for Coarse-to-Fine Feature Attribution

cs.CV · 2026-05-19 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Spectral Integrated Gradients constructs SVD-based integration paths that activate singular components from largest to smallest, producing cleaner attribution maps and better quantitative scores than standard Integrated Gradients on image classification tasks.

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