On the relation between neural network size and performance

This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-58).Artificial Neural Networks (NN) are notorious for their size requirements and for the effort involved in developing well performing network models. This thesis uncovers a fundamental relationship that ties model size and performance in a predictable manner. This relationship enables a well-founded development of networks at small scale while producing insight into their large-scale behavior.by Jonathan S. Rosenfeld.S.M.S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc