BatchNorm is one of the most-asked deep-learning questions, and the trap is the train/inference difference. What interviewers reward is what it normalizes, why it stabilizes and speeds training, and why it switches to running statistics at inference. Here is that answer.
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BatchNorm is one of the most-asked deep-learning questions, and the trap is the train/inference difference. What interviewers reward is what it normalizes, why it stabilizes and speeds training, and why it switches to running statistics at inference. Here is that answer.
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