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Deep learning has a size problem

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Re: Deep learning has a size problem

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It's not such a problem, except if you want to train from scratch a large model (NLP or CV), not if you want to fine-tune it for a related task. So one trained model can be reused many times. In general training data is scarce, only in a few situations it is abundant.

Re: Deep learning has a size problem

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How did they use an elephant as cover image without mentioning von Neumann's famous and relevant quote: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

A great article on it: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elep...

Re: Deep learning has a size problem

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How did they use an elephant as cover image without mentioning von Neumann's famous and relevant quote: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." A great article on it: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elep...

That came up in The Dream Machine! Reading it now.

Re: Deep learning has a size problem

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Seems to focus on reducing the size of existing models through optimization. Better would be to find ways to train smaller models to start with. Still interesting.

why would that be better?

Compressing it means it may take less storage, but not having to look at it in the first place it the win. It simply takes time to process all the data. Less data: faster computation.
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