Developer(s) | Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton |
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Initial release | Jun 28, 2011 |
Repository | code |
Written in | CUDA, C++ |
Type | Convolutional neural network |
License | New BSD License |
AlexNet is the name of a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, designed by Alex Krizhevsky in collaboration with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, who was Krizhevsky's Ph.D. advisor at the University of Toronto.[when?] It had 60 million parameters and 650,000 neurons.[1]
The original paper's primary result was that the depth of the model was essential for its high performance, which was computationally expensive, but made feasible due to the utilization of graphics processing units (GPUs) during training.[1]
The three formed team SuperVision[2] and submitted AlexNet in the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge on September 30, 2012.[3] The network achieved a top-5 error of 15.3%, more than 10.8 percentage points better than that of the runner-up.
The architecture influenced a large number of subsequent work in deep learning, especially in applying neural networks to computer vision.