Did we ever really get to the bottom of why BatchNorm works? [D]

It's been a long time since I studied this. Just checking in on an old friend. I also realize it's fallen out of favor for being extremely inconvenient , but why did it ever work?

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2026-11-10 02:07 · r/MachineLearning
Did we ever really get to the bottom of why BatchNorm works? [D]

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