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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
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What is the purpose of residual connections (skip connections) in deep networks?
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The correct answer is B) To allow gradients to flow directly through skip paths (F(x)+x), enabling training of very deep networks (100+ layers) by mitigating vanishing gradients
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Correct Answer
To allow gradients to flow directly through skip paths (F(x)+x), enabling training of very deep networks (100+ layers) by mitigating vanishing gradients
Explanation
ResNet (He et al., 2015): H(x) = F(x) + x. The skip connection allows gradients to bypass layers. This enabled training networks with 100-1000 layers, achieving breakthrough results on ImageNet.
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