The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Patches in Deep Convolutional Kernels\n Methods
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Abstract
A recent line of work showed that various forms of convolutional kernel\nmethods can be competitive with standard supervised deep convolutional networks\non datasets like CIFAR-10, obtaining accuracies in the range of 87-90% while\nbeing more amenable to theoretical analysis. In this work, we highlight the\nimportance of a data-dependent feature extraction step that is key to the\nobtain good performance in convolutional kernel methods. This step typically\ncorresponds to a whitened dictionary of patches, and gives rise to a\ndata-driven convolutional kernel methods. We extensively study its effect,\ndemonstrating it is the key ingredient for high performance of these methods.\nSpecifically, we show that one of the simplest instances of such kernel\nmethods, based on a single layer of image patches followed by a linear\nclassifier is already obtaining classification accuracies on CIFAR-10 in the\nsame range as previous more sophisticated convolutional kernel methods. We\nscale this method to the challenging ImageNet dataset, showing such a simple\napproach can exceed all existing non-learned representation methods. This is a\nnew baseline for object recognition without representation learning methods,\nthat initiates the investigation of convolutional kernel models on ImageNet. We\nconduct experiments to analyze the dictionary that we used, our ablations\nshowing they exhibit low-dimensional properties.\n
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