LeCun: ConvNet training times dropped from two weeks to two days
Yann LeCun · Yann Lecun, Facebook // Artificial Intelligence // Data Driven #32 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Dec 18, 2014 · at 21:55
Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research at Facebook, explains how GPU acceleration and improved software implementations sped up deep learning training.
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“The first large convolutional nets that are appropriate for object recognition came up about two and a half years ago, and it would take about two weeks to train. The latest versions with the latest software implementations, we can train in about two days.”
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