Effect of techniques from Fast.ai

fast.ai is a brilliant library and a course by Jeremy Howard an co. They use pytorch as a base and explain deep learning from the foundations to a very decent level. In his course Jeremy Howard demonstrates a lot of interesting techniques that he finds in papers and that do NN training faster/better/cheaper. Here I want to reproduce some of the techniques in order to understand what is the effect they bring....

November 15, 2020 · SergeM