Yoshua Bengio Team’s Large-Scale Analysis Reveals the Benefits of Modularity and Sparsity for DNNs

In the new paper Is a Modular Architecture Enough?, a research team from Mila and the Université de Montréal conducts a rigorous and thorough quantitative assessment of common modular architectures that reveals the benefits of modularity and sparsity for deep neural networks and the sub-optimality of existing end-to-end learned modular systems.