Towards Principled Design of Deep Convolutional Networks: Introducing SimpNet
I&#x27;m sure a lot of effort went to writing this paper, but I have to say I&#x27;m underwhelmed with the reported results.<p>First of all, CIFAR results in 2018 are just not going to cut it. The efficiency is only measured in terms of parameter count, and not even compared to CondenseNet. &quot;SAF Pooling&quot; does not deserve a special name, as it&#x27;s just max pooling followed by dropout. And again, no significant performance benefit is reported.<p>Overall, the paper seems like a solid class project, but the contribution to the field is minimal.