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CNN — Glossary

Convolutional neural network: an architecture using local filters for grid-like data such as images.

Also known as: convolutional neural network

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CNNs share weights across spatial positions, learning hierarchical visual features efficiently. They remain widely deployed even as vision transformers grow in popularity.

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Convolutional Neural Networks — Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) use local filters and weight sharing to learn spatial hierarchies—foundational for modern computer vision.

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