From the archive · Monday, 31 August 2026

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Paper2015

Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

He, Zhang, Ren & Sun

Depth had started making networks worse rather than overfit; learning residuals instead of full mappings makes hundreds of layers trainable and fixes the degradation.

Level: Advanced
Access: Free
Length: —
Copy: link checked 17 Sept 2026
Filed under: Computer Vision

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