# Convolutional representation and detector design

> ML preparation item.

- Stable ID: `mit-6-036-s2018-final-q9`
- Area: Machine Learning
- Topic: Convolution
- Origin: external
- Expected time: 18 minutes
- Skills: convolution-operation, output-shape, receptive-field
- Item JSON: https://mlprep.iwase.dev/data/items/mit-6-036-s2018-final-q9.json

This site does not reproduce the third-party problem.

- Source: MIT 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning Exams
- Document: Spring 2018 Final Exam
- Locator: Question 9: Convoluted network, problem PDF pp. 23–24
- Official answer PDF page(s): 23–24
- Original problem: https://introml.mit.edu/_static/spring23/final/review/Spring18-final.pdf#page=23
- Official answer: https://introml.mit.edu/_static/spring23/final/review/Spring18-final-solutions.pdf#page=23
- Answer status: official-solution


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