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finding:curve-detectors-found-across-alexnet-inceptionv1-vgg19-resnetv2-50-and-models-trained-on-places365Curve detectors found across AlexNet, InceptionV1, VGG19, ResNetV2-50 and models trained on Places365
Anecdotal evidence for the universality of low-level visual features across different architectures and datasets
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extracted_from(2020) · Chris Olah · Nick Cammarata · Ludwig Schubert · Gabriel Goh +2
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- Third of three speculative claims asserting that learned features are not model-specific but represent universal solutions to learning problems
Datasets (2)
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- AlexNetcitesVision model used in universality comparisons for curve detectors and high-low frequency detectors
- InceptionV1citesPrimary vision model studied throughout the paper; source of all featured circuits and examples
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