Book Progress
The Uber-Important Chapter 7 – Introduction to Energy-based Neural Networks: I tell students that it’s like being on the Oregon Trail. All of the stochastic gradient-descent networks (up to and including Convolutional Neural Networks, or ConvNets, and Long Short-Term Memory networks, or LSTM networks) can be understood using backpropagation. This requires only that first-semester calculus background. Sure, grunting through the chain rule (many, many times) gets tedious. But it’s doable. In contrast, the energy-based networks are the heart and…