Wait, how can I get to near SOTA on Imagenet in a minute (!) for $40?

gwern · on Aug 23, 2019

OK, I exaggerated a little because I was recalling from memory: the old fast.ai approach actually takes <18 minutes (https://www.fast.ai/2018/08/10/fastai-diu-imagenet/). My bad. (I'm sure it's improved since then but I don't know how much.) I was also thinking of https://myrtle.ai/how-to-train-your-resnet-8-bag-of-tricks/ which does CIFAR-10 in 26s but I'm not sure offhand what CIFAR-10's SOTAs look like so not sure how far away that is.

p1esk · on Aug 23, 2019

Actually this is still very good. Thanks for the links. I'll be timing some of these tricks tomorrow for my Imagenet experiments. By the way, I believe this is the current SOTA for Imagenet: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11946 (84/97%). CIFAR10 appears to be essentially solved (99%).