AlexNet wins ImageNet

Name: AlexNet wins ImageNet
Start: 2012-09-30
End: 2012-09-30

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Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton’s convolutional network, trained on two GPUs, wins ILSVRC 2012 with a top-5 error of about 15.3%, far ahead of the runner-up.

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