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Unsupervised neural networks will never match models trained on well-labeled data

Matthew Zeiler · Matthew Zeiler, Clarifai // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Nov 20, 2014 · at 15:48

Matthew Zeiler (founder of Clarifai) answers a question from Matt Turck (FirstMark Capital) about training neural networks for vertical domains like medical imaging.

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“These models work really well with labeled data. There are approaches where you can train without any labels but the performance is never as good as if you have well-labeled data.”

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