ConvNeXt: A ConvNet for the 2020s | Paper Explained

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❤️ Become The AI Epiphany Patreon ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Join our Discord community 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE In this video I cover the recently published "A ConvNet for the 2020s" paper. They show that ConvNets are still in the game! - by adding new design ideas and training procedures they outperform vision transformers even in big data regimes and without any attention layers. Convolutional prior continues to stand the test of time in the field of computer vision. Note: I also partially cover the Swin transformer paper in case you missed out on that one. :) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ✅ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03545 ✅ GitHub: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ConvNeXt ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00 Intro - convergence of transformers and CNNs 05:05 Main diagram explained 07:40 Main diagram corrections 10:10 Swin transformer recap 20:20 Modernizing ResNets 24:10 Diving deeper: stage ratio 27:20 Diving deeper: misc (inverted bottleneck, depthwise conv...) 34:45 Results (classification, object detection, segmentation) 37:35 RIP DanNet 38:40 Summary and outro ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💰 BECOME A PATREON OF THE AI EPIPHANY ❤️ If these videos, GitHub projects, and blogs help you, consider helping me out by supporting me on Patreon! The AI Epiphany - https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany One-time donation - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theaiepiphany Huge thank you to these AI Epiphany patreons: Eli Mahler Petar Veličković ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksagordic/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Discord - https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE 📺 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEpiphany/ 📚 Medium - https://gordicaleksa.medium.com/ 💻 GitHub - https://github.com/gordicaleksa 📢 AI Newsletter - https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #convnext #visiontransformers #computervision

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