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Architecture

Convolutional neural network

also called CNN · convnet

decade4 connections

stacked convolutions that see images through learned local filters

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isrepresent × L1. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

ConvolutionConvolutional neural networknothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

Before it: Convolution

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

It is made of: Convolution, Feature map, Pooling.

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

20Seeing with Windowsact 5 · The Connectionist Turn

Where it comes from

paperImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural NetworksAlex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey Hinton · 2012

Every connection

All 4 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 3
has as a partConvolutionMechanism
has as a partFeature mapQuantity
has as a partPoolingMechanism
Order · 1
requiresConvolutionMechanism

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