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It is our belief that researchers and practitioners acquire, through experience and word-of-mouth, techniques and heuristics that help them successfully apply neural networks to diffcult real world problems. Often these “tricks” are theoretically well motivated. Sometimes they are the result of trial and error. However, their most common link is that they are usually hidden in people’s heads or in the back pages of space-constrained conference papers. As a result newcomers to the field waste much time wondering why their networks train so slowly and perform so poorly.
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(1998). Introduction. In: Orr, G.B., Müller, KR. (eds) Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1524. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49430-8_1
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