Describes stochastic gradient decent methods for large data sets estimation

Google built new neural network acoustic models using Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and sequence discriminative training techniques.
http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/google-voice-search-faster-and-more.html

Deep Learning Summer School videos, Montreal 2015
http://videolectures.net/deeplearning2015_montreal/

There is a deep learning meet up in Stockholm and they are recording videos of their meetings

Surveillance-nature images are released in the download links as "sv_data.*". Download all such files, then unzip them with the same password as the web-nature data. We also conducted a fine-grained classification experiment for this part of data. The results are provided in the arXiv paper.

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