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by skybrian 3326 days ago
Not an expert, but as I understand it, common practice (everywhere, not just at Facebook) is to use CNN for understanding images and other kinds of non-sequential data. RNN are commonly used for handling text and other kinds of sequential data.

They showed how to use a CNN with text to get a speed boost, even though that's not how it's normally been done.