Optimization Method of Residual Networks of Residual Networks for Image Classification

摘要

The activation of a Deep Convolutional Neural Network that overlooks the diversity of datasets has been restricting its development in image classification. In this paper, we propose a Residual Networks of Residual Networks (RoR) optimization method. Firstly, three activation functions (RELU, ELU and PELU) are applied to RoR and can provide more effective optimization methods for different datasets; Secondly, we added a drop-path to avoid over-fitting and widened RoR adding filters to avoid gradient vanish. Our networks achieved good classification accuracy in CIFAR-10/100 datasets, and the best test errors were 3.52% and 19.07% on CIFAR-10/100, respectively. The experiments prove that the RoR network optimization method can improve network performance, and effectively restrain the vanishing/exploding gradients.