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Templates Are Learned

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State

The templates in a modern vision system are not designed — their weights are knobs like any others, sculpted by descent and backward blame until the templates that help prediction exist.

Show

Edge-preferring, stripe-preferring, and blob-preferring templates emerge because they help — nobody drew them.

Watch for

A learned template answers to prediction error, not to human ideas of what vision should notice.