The document describes the architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). It explains that CNNs help reduce the number of parameters in a neural network by sharing weights and using fewer connections compared to fully connected networks. The key components of CNNs are convolutional layers, which apply filters to input images, and max pooling layers, which reduce the spatial size of representations. CNNs can be effective for tasks involving visual or sequential data like image classification, speech recognition, and text classification.