[Classic] Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition (Paper Explained)

#ai #research #resnet ResNets are one of the cornerstones of modern Computer Vision. Before their invention, people were not able to scale deep neural networks beyond 20 or so layers, but with this paper’s invention of residual connections, all of a sudden networks could be arbitrarily deep. This led to a big spike in the performance of convolutional neural networks and rapid adoption in the community. To this day, ResNets are the backbone of most vision models and residual connections appear all throughou