Quick Paper Review: "There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning"

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h/t Eric Michaud for sharing his paper with me.There’s a tradition of high-impact ML papers using short, punchy categorical sentences as their titles: Understanding Deep Learning Requires Rethinking Generalization, Attention is All You Need, Language Models Are Few Shot Learners, and so forth. A new paper by Simon et al. seeks to expand on this tradition with not a present claim but a future tense, prophetic future sentence: “There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning”. There’s a lot of ...

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