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Good job. Alas, the proliferation of different kinds of neural net architectures that work, over the past few years, is a sign that we lack a decent unifying theoretical framework that can explain, from fundamental principles, what works, what doesn't, and why. We're not there yet.
This is already one year old. I am wonder how much the zoo grew in 2017. What were the main network innovations? Capsules and the Transformer?
I have always absolutely hated this diagram and think it should go away. I have also never seen somebody who understands the content of the diagram share it as a useful pedagogical tool. For example, with CNNs, you are building up feature activation volumes based on the entire previous layer. The edges between layer N only connects to two nodes in layer N-1. What are the nodes even supposed to represent? This is not how CNNs works. This explains nothing…
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HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 667
- Total comments
- 61
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-14 | The neural network zoo | zavg | 36 | 0 |
| 2016-09-14 | Neural Network Zoo | adamnemecek | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-09-19 | The Neural Network Zoo: A Cheat Sheet of AI Architectures | interweb | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-10-20 | The Neural Network ZooFirst breakout · Best thread | hgarg | 358 | 39 |
| 2017-12-19 | The Neural Network Zoo | ZeljkoS | 177 | 9 |
| 2019-06-25 | The Neural Network Zoo | Datenstrom | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-12-04 | The Neural Network Zoo (2016)Latest 20+ point return | DecayingOrganic | 87 | 13 |
| 2025-03-27 | The Neural Network Zoo (2016) | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-03-16 | Neural Network Zoo (2016) | vismit2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-03-18 | Neural Network Zoo | throwaw12 | 1 | 0 |