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## Introduction

This model is defined as proposed in the book "mastering pytorch".
It is based on CNN-encoder and a LSTM-decoder.

The CNN-encoder is based on a pretrained RESNET-152. The last layer of the resnet is replaced by a vector embedding layer of 256 elements.
The LSTM-decoder use an input of 256, a hidden layer of 512, and uses the vocabulary size.

The model has been trained as a pure learning exercise, and so the model performances remain relatively mean.

## Training procedure

For the sake of the exercise, the model has been trained for only 5 epochs.

It has been trained on the COCO dataset.