An Experiment on the Use of Genetic Algorithms for Topology Selection in Deep Learning

Figure 1

Layer descriptor examples. In (a), a convolutional layer, activated by ReLU, with 8 filters, a 7 × 7 kernel, stride of 4, and pooling of 3. In (b), a fully connected layer, activated by TanH, with 32 neurons and a dropout rate of 0.6.

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