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Relay Backpropagation for Effective Learning of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Learning deeper convolutional neural networks becomes a tendency in recent
years. However, many empirical evidences suggest that performance improvement
cannot be gained by simply stacking more layers. In this paper, we consider the
issue from an information theoretical perspective, and propose a novel method
Relay Backpropagation, that encourages the propagation of effective information
through the network in training stage. By virtue of the method, we achieved the
first place in ILSVRC 2015 Scene Classification Challenge. Extensive
experiments on two challenging large scale datasets demonstrate the
effectiveness of our method is not restricted to a specific dataset or network
architecture. Our models will be available to the research community later.Comment: Technical report for our submissions to the ILSVRC 2015 Scene
Classification Challenge, where we won the first plac
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