# Which CNN hyper-parameters are most sensitive to centered versus off centered data?

Which hyper-parameters of a convolutional neural network are likely to be the most sensitive to depending on whether the training (and test and inference) data involves only accurately centered images versus off-centered images.

More convolutional layers, wider convolution kernels, more dense layers, wider dense layers, more or less pooling, or ???

e.g. If I can preprocess the data to include only accurately centered images, which hyper-parameters should I experiment with changing to create a smaller CNN model (for a power and memory constrained inference engine)? Or conversely, if I have a minimized model trained on centered data, which hyper-parameters would I most likely need to increase to get similar loss and accuracy on uncentered (shifted in XY) data?

• Hi and welcome to this community! Maybe you should provide a rigorous definition of "centered images" and "off-centered images" for your question to be answered unambiguously. – nbro Jan 1 at 14:12
• Translation augmentation. – mirror2image Jan 2 at 8:16