The other paper that killed deep learning theory
Yesterday, I wrote about the state of deep learning theory circa 2016,[1] as well as the bombshell 2016 paper by Zhang et al. that arguably signaled its demise. Today, I cover the aftermath, and the 2019 paper that devastated deep learning theory again. As a brief summary, I argued that the rise of deep learning posed an existential challenge to the dominant theoretical paradigm of statistical learning theory, because neural networks have a lot of complexity. The response from the field was to a
By LawrenceC