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Spatially-sparse convolutional neural networks

Benjamin Graham

2014-09-22Handwriting RecognitionImage Classification
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Abstract

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well on problems such as handwriting recognition and image classification. However, the performance of the networks is often limited by budget and time constraints, particularly when trying to train deep networks. Motivated by the problem of online handwriting recognition, we developed a CNN for processing spatially-sparse inputs; a character drawn with a one-pixel wide pen on a high resolution grid looks like a sparse matrix. Taking advantage of the sparsity allowed us more efficiently to train and test large, deep CNNs. On the CASIA-OLHWDB1.1 dataset containing 3755 character classes we get a test error of 3.82%. Although pictures are not sparse, they can be thought of as sparse by adding padding. Applying a deep convolutional network using sparsity has resulted in a substantial reduction in test error on the CIFAR small picture datasets: 6.28% on CIFAR-10 and 24.30% for CIFAR-100.

Results

TaskDatasetMetricValueModel
Image ClassificationCIFAR-10Percentage correct93.7SSCNN
Image ClassificationCIFAR-100Percentage correct75.7SSCNN

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