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How to determine the number of hidden layers and units of a deep auto-encoder?

I am using a deep autoencoder for my problem. However, the way I choose the number of hidden layers and hidden units in a hidden layer is still based on my feeling. The size of the model that ...
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Is this idea to calculate the required number of hidden neurons for a single hidden layer neural network correct?

I have an idea to find the optimal number of hidden neurons required in a neural network, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. Assuming that it has only 1 hidden layer, it is a classification problem ...
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Why should the number of neurons in a hidden layer be a power of 2?

I have read somewhere on the web (I lost the reference) that the number of units (or neurons) in a hidden layer should be a power of 2 because it helps the learning algorithm to converge faster. Is ...
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