Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton deployed AlexNet, a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), in the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC). By utilizing two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPUs to train an 8-layer network featuring ReLU activations and dropout regularization, they achieved a historic error rate of 15.3%—obliterating the runner-up’s non-neural score of 26.2% and triggering the immediate, permanent migration of global computer science onto deep learning.
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