Hyperparameter optimisation for Capsule Networks

Convolutional Neural Networks and its contemporary variants have proven to be ruling benchmarks for most image processing tasks but resort to pooling techniques and routing mechanisms that affect classification accuracy and lose spatial relationship information between involved data points. Hence, Hinton et al, proposed a layered architecture called Capsule Networks (Capsnets) which outperform traditional systems by replacing pooling techniques with dynamic routing abilities. Capsnets are, thus, en-route to proving themselves as prospective future benchmarks in visual imagery tasks by surpassing existing state-of-theart results on the MNIST dataset. The two novel aspects inspected in this paper are: the enhancement of this performance on CIFAR-10 through regularization and hyperparameter optimization which, henceforth, augment applicability to stochastic numeric healthcare data helping uncover newer challenges of predictive neural networks.