Posted on April 6, 2014 topology, neural networks, deep learning, manifold hypothesis Recently, there’s been a great deal of excitement and interest in deep neural networks because they’ve achieved breakthrough results in areas such as computer vision.1 However, there remain a number of concerns about them. One is that it can be quite challenging to understand what a neural network is really doing
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