Researchers Build AI That Builds AI

A hypernetwork aims to find the best deep neural network architecture to solve a given task. Boris Knyazev of the University of Guelph in Ontario and his colleagues have designed and trained a "hypernetwork" that could speed up the training of neural networks. Given a new, untrained deep neural network designed for some task, the hypernetwork predicts the parameters for the new network in fractions of a second, and in theory could make training unnecessary. The work may also have deeper theoretical implications. The name outlines the approach.