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30299578815310 t1_j9kziil wrote

This is just not true. As others noted there are other algorithms which are universal approximators and run at scale. The key to the success of DNNs is unknown. A hypothesis is called the lottery ticket hypothesis.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635

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VirtualHat t1_j9lm05j wrote

It's worth noting that it wasn't until conv nets that DNNs took off. It's hard to think of a problem that a traditional vanilla MLP solves that can't also be solved with an SVM.

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