AlexNet was proposed in 2012, one of the most influential neural networks. It got big success in ImageNet Dataset recognition than other models.
[Paper](http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4824-imagenet-classification-with-deep-convolutional-neural-networks.pdf): Krizhevsky A, Sutskever I, Hinton G E. ImageNet Classification with Deep ConvolutionalNeural Networks. *Advances In Neural Information Processing Systems*. 2012.
# [Model Architecture](#contents)
AlexNet composition consists of 5 convolutional layers and 3 fully connected layers. Multiple convolutional kernels can extract interesting features in images and get more accurate classification.
The [mixed precision](https://www.mindspore.cn/tutorial/zh-CN/master/advanced_use/mixed_precision.html) training method accelerates the deep learning neural network training process by using both the single-precision and half-precision data formats, and maintains the network precision achieved by the single-precision training at the same time. Mixed precision training can accelerate the computation process, reduce memory usage, and enable a larger model or batch size to be trained on specific hardware.
For FP16 operators, if the input data type is FP32, the backend of MindSpore will automatically handle it with reduced precision. Users could check the reduced-precision operators by enabling INFO log and then searching ‘reduce precision’.
