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In that case, the model is basically a ResNet again and you don't need to worry about exploding/vanishing gradients from H_res.

Trains for 15 epochs and it, like all the others is a 9 layer resnet.

It means you can train Alexnet style model or ResNet on windows desktop that support DX11.

The challenge is to use your efficient new ops to build an architecture that can match ResNet's accuracy with lower total complexity.

ResNet really made massive waves in the field, and it was hard finding a paper that didn't reference it for a while.

This should be recommended reading for those interested in micro-design changes from the days of residual networks (ResNet) to Manifold-Constrained Hyper Connections (mHC).

We find networks that are both faster and more accurate, as well as networks with about the same accuracy but 1.77x faster than ResNet-50.

I probably should have made the 9-layer ResNet part more, front-and-center / central to my point.

The ResNet results hold from scratch because strict local constraints (e.g., 3x3 convolutions) force the emergence of fundamental signal-processing features (Gabor/Laplacian filters) regardless of the dataset.

ResNet and concepts like Differential Privacy were invented there.

For simpler nets, like ResNet, it may just be that modern initialization and training recipes avoid most gradient issues, even though they are otherwise potentially still there.

Then switch to CNNs: LeNet, VGG, then ResNet.

A “pretrained” ResNet could easily have been trained through a supervised signal like ImageNet labels.

And we already know from logit-lens type work that the residual stream roughly remains in the same "basis" [1], which I vaguely remember is something that resnet architectures explicitly try to achieve.

Here is a breakdown of the core innovations in this architecture:Teacher-Student Curriculum: To bypass the notoriously slow start of pure self-play, the system uses a PyTorch ResNet "Student" that learns directly from Edax, the "Teacher".

They trained five Resnet-50s on five disjoint datasets of natural images, most quite small.