Sleep Is for Backpropagation (2017)

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ijidak · 20h ago

So, I post this because I wonder if the key to models that improve daily is "sleep". E.g. well never get around garbage collector pauses for models.

I'm sure this is not an original idea, but it hit me today and I figured I would love to hear thoughts from this community.

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Sleep Is for Backpropagation (2017)

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