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Towards Machine Intelligence
cs.AI
There exists a theory of a single general-purpose learning algorithm which could explain the principles of its operation. This theory assumes that the brain has some initial rough architecture, a small library of simple innate circuits which are prewired at birth and proposes that all significant mental algorithms can ...
computer science
801
Dynamic Frame skip Deep Q Network
cs.LG
Deep Reinforcement Learning methods have achieved state of the art performance in learning control policies for the games in the Atari 2600 domain. One of the important parameters in the Arcade Learning Environment (ALE) is the frame skip rate. It decides the granularity at which agents can control game play. A frame s...
computer science
802
Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter
cs.NE
Given that in practice training data is scarce for all but a small set of problems, a core question is how to incorporate prior knowledge into a model. In this paper, we consider the case of prior procedural knowledge for neural networks, such as knowing how a program should traverse a sequence, but not what local acti...
computer science
803
Generative Choreography using Deep Learning
cs.AI
Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the extraction of high-level features from raw sensor data which has opened up new possibilities in many different fields, including computer generated choreography. In this paper we present a system chor-rnn for generating novel choreographic material in the nuanced choreo...
computer science
804
Logic Tensor Networks: Deep Learning and Logical Reasoning from Data and Knowledge
cs.AI
We propose Logic Tensor Networks: a uniform framework for integrating automatic learning and reasoning. A logic formalism called Real Logic is defined on a first-order language whereby formulas have truth-value in the interval [0,1] and semantics defined concretely on the domain of real numbers. Logical constants are i...
computer science
805
Identifying and Harnessing the Building Blocks of Machine Learning Pipelines for Sensible Initialization of a Data Science Automation Tool
cs.NE
As data science continues to grow in popularity, there will be an increasing need to make data science tools more scalable, flexible, and accessible. In particular, automated machine learning (AutoML) systems seek to automate the process of designing and optimizing machine learning pipelines. In this chapter, we presen...
computer science
806
Neuroevolution-Based Inverse Reinforcement Learning
cs.NE
The problem of Learning from Demonstration is targeted at learning to perform tasks based on observed examples. One approach to Learning from Demonstration is Inverse Reinforcement Learning, in which actions are observed to infer rewards. This work combines a feature based state evaluation approach to Inverse Reinforce...
computer science
807
TerpreT: A Probabilistic Programming Language for Program Induction
cs.LG
We study machine learning formulations of inductive program synthesis; given input-output examples, we try to synthesize source code that maps inputs to corresponding outputs. Our aims are to develop new machine learning approaches based on neural networks and graphical models, and to understand the capabilities of mac...
computer science
808
Multi-Label Classification Method Based on Extreme Learning Machines
cs.LG
In this paper, an Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) based technique for Multi-label classification problems is proposed and discussed. In multi-label classification, each of the input data samples belongs to one or more than one class labels. The traditional binary and multi-class classification problems are the subset of...
computer science
809
A Novel Online Real-time Classifier for Multi-label Data Streams
cs.LG
In this paper, a novel extreme learning machine based online multi-label classifier for real-time data streams is proposed. Multi-label classification is one of the actively researched machine learning paradigm that has gained much attention in the recent years due to its rapidly increasing real world applications. In ...
computer science
810
A Novel Progressive Learning Technique for Multi-class Classification
cs.LG
In this paper, a progressive learning technique for multi-class classification is proposed. This newly developed learning technique is independent of the number of class constraints and it can learn new classes while still retaining the knowledge of previous classes. Whenever a new class (non-native to the knowledge le...
computer science
811
A novel online multi-label classifier for high-speed streaming data applications
cs.LG
In this paper, a high-speed online neural network classifier based on extreme learning machines for multi-label classification is proposed. In multi-label classification, each of the input data sample belongs to one or more than one of the target labels. The traditional binary and multi-class classification where each ...
computer science
812
Ternary Neural Networks for Resource-Efficient AI Applications
cs.LG
The computation and storage requirements for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are usually high. This issue limits their deployability on ubiquitous computing devices such as smart phones, wearables and autonomous drones. In this paper, we propose ternary neural networks (TNNs) in order to make deep learning more resource-ef...
computer science
813
Fitted Learning: Models with Awareness of their Limits
cs.AI
Though deep learning has pushed the boundaries of classification forward, in recent years hints of the limits of standard classification have begun to emerge. Problems such as fooling, adding new classes over time, and the need to retrain learning models only for small changes to the original problem all point to a pot...
computer science
814
Learning to learn with backpropagation of Hebbian plasticity
cs.NE
Hebbian plasticity is a powerful principle that allows biological brains to learn from their lifetime experience. By contrast, artificial neural networks trained with backpropagation generally have fixed connection weights that do not change once training is complete. While recent methods can endow neural networks with...
computer science
815
Learning by Stimulation Avoidance: A Principle to Control Spiking Neural Networks Dynamics
cs.NE
Learning based on networks of real neurons, and by extension biologically inspired models of neural networks, has yet to find general learning rules leading to widespread applications. In this paper, we argue for the existence of a principle allowing to steer the dynamics of a biologically inspired neural network. Usin...
computer science
816
Surprisal-Driven Zoneout
cs.LG
We propose a novel method of regularization for recurrent neural networks called suprisal-driven zoneout. In this method, states zoneout (maintain their previous value rather than updating), when the suprisal (discrepancy between the last state's prediction and target) is small. Thus regularization is adaptive and inpu...
computer science
817
Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
cs.LG
Neural networks are powerful and flexible models that work well for many difficult learning tasks in image, speech and natural language understanding. Despite their success, neural networks are still hard to design. In this paper, we use a recurrent network to generate the model descriptions of neural networks and trai...
computer science
818
Emergence of foveal image sampling from learning to attend in visual scenes
cs.NE
We describe a neural attention model with a learnable retinal sampling lattice. The model is trained on a visual search task requiring the classification of an object embedded in a visual scene amidst background distractors using the smallest number of fixations. We explore the tiling properties that emerge in the mode...
computer science
819
Long Timescale Credit Assignment in NeuralNetworks with External Memory
cs.AI
Credit assignment in traditional recurrent neural networks usually involves back-propagating through a long chain of tied weight matrices. The length of this chain scales linearly with the number of time-steps as the same network is run at each time-step. This creates many problems, such as vanishing gradients, that ha...
computer science
820
Energy Saving Additive Neural Network
cs.NE
In recent years, machine learning techniques based on neural networks for mobile computing become increasingly popular. Classical multi-layer neural networks require matrix multiplications at each stage. Multiplication operation is not an energy efficient operation and consequently it drains the battery of the mobile d...
computer science
821
Learning to Repeat: Fine Grained Action Repetition for Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.LG
Reinforcement Learning algorithms can learn complex behavioral patterns for sequential decision making tasks wherein an agent interacts with an environment and acquires feedback in the form of rewards sampled from it. Traditionally, such algorithms make decisions, i.e., select actions to execute, at every single time s...
computer science
822
Survey of reasoning using Neural networks
cs.LG
Reason and inference require process as well as memory skills by humans. Neural networks are able to process tasks like image recognition (better than humans) but in memory aspects are still limited (by attention mechanism, size). Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and it's modified version LSTM are able to solve small mem...
computer science
823
One-Shot Imitation Learning
cs.AI
Imitation learning has been commonly applied to solve different tasks in isolation. This usually requires either careful feature engineering, or a significant number of samples. This is far from what we desire: ideally, robots should be able to learn from very few demonstrations of any given task, and instantly general...
computer science
824
Deep Learning for Explicitly Modeling Optimization Landscapes
cs.NE
In all but the most trivial optimization problems, the structure of the solutions exhibit complex interdependencies between the input parameters. Decades of research with stochastic search techniques has shown the benefit of explicitly modeling the interactions between sets of parameters and the overall quality of the ...
computer science
825
Stochastic Neural Networks for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
Deep reinforcement learning has achieved many impressive results in recent years. However, tasks with sparse rewards or long horizons continue to pose significant challenges. To tackle these important problems, we propose a general framework that first learns useful skills in a pre-training environment, and then levera...
computer science
826
Batch Reinforcement Learning on the Industrial Benchmark: First Experiences
cs.LG
The Particle Swarm Optimization Policy (PSO-P) has been recently introduced and proven to produce remarkable results on interacting with academic reinforcement learning benchmarks in an off-policy, batch-based setting. To further investigate the properties and feasibility on real-world applications, this paper investig...
computer science
827
End-to-End Differentiable Proving
cs.NE
We introduce neural networks for end-to-end differentiable proving of queries to knowledge bases by operating on dense vector representations of symbols. These neural networks are constructed recursively by taking inspiration from the backward chaining algorithm as used in Prolog. Specifically, we replace symbolic unif...
computer science
828
Multi-Agent Actor-Critic for Mixed Cooperative-Competitive Environments
cs.LG
We explore deep reinforcement learning methods for multi-agent domains. We begin by analyzing the difficulty of traditional algorithms in the multi-agent case: Q-learning is challenged by an inherent non-stationarity of the environment, while policy gradient suffers from a variance that increases as the number of agent...
computer science
829
Getting deep recommenders fit: Bloom embeddings for sparse binary input/output networks
cs.LG
Recommendation algorithms that incorporate techniques from deep learning are becoming increasingly popular. Due to the structure of the data coming from recommendation domains (i.e., one-hot-encoded vectors of item preferences), these algorithms tend to have large input and output dimensionalities that dominate their o...
computer science
830
Beyond Monte Carlo Tree Search: Playing Go with Deep Alternative Neural Network and Long-Term Evaluation
cs.AI
Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is extremely popular in computer Go which determines each action by enormous simulations in a broad and deep search tree. However, human experts select most actions by pattern analysis and careful evaluation rather than brute search of millions of future nteractions. In this paper, we pro...
computer science
831
Hindsight Experience Replay
cs.LG
Dealing with sparse rewards is one of the biggest challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL). We present a novel technique called Hindsight Experience Replay which allows sample-efficient learning from rewards which are sparse and binary and therefore avoid the need for complicated reward engineering. It can be combined...
computer science
832
Trial without Error: Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning via Human Intervention
cs.AI
AI systems are increasingly applied to complex tasks that involve interaction with humans. During training, such systems are potentially dangerous, as they haven't yet learned to avoid actions that could cause serious harm. How can an AI system explore and learn without making a single mistake that harms humans or othe...
computer science
833
Reverse Curriculum Generation for Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
Many relevant tasks require an agent to reach a certain state, or to manipulate objects into a desired configuration. For example, we might want a robot to align and assemble a gear onto an axle or insert and turn a key in a lock. These goal-oriented tasks present a considerable challenge for reinforcement learning, si...
computer science
834
Ideological Sublations: Resolution of Dialectic in Population-based Optimization
cs.LG
A population-based optimization algorithm was designed, inspired by two main thinking modes in philosophy, both based on dialectic concept and thesis-antithesis paradigm. They impose two different kinds of dialectics. Idealistic and materialistic antitheses are formulated as optimization models. Based on the models, th...
computer science
835
ProjectionNet: Learning Efficient On-Device Deep Networks Using Neural Projections
cs.LG
Deep neural networks have become ubiquitous for applications related to visual recognition and language understanding tasks. However, it is often prohibitive to use typical neural networks on devices like mobile phones or smart watches since the model sizes are huge and cannot fit in the limited memory available on suc...
computer science
836
A Flow Model of Neural Networks
cs.LG
Based on a natural connection between ResNet and transport equation or its characteristic equation, we propose a continuous flow model for both ResNet and plain net. Through this continuous model, a ResNet can be explicitly constructed as a refinement of a plain net. The flow model provides an alternative perspective t...
computer science
837
Multimodal Content Analysis for Effective Advertisements on YouTube
cs.AI
The rapid advances in e-commerce and Web 2.0 technologies have greatly increased the impact of commercial advertisements on the general public. As a key enabling technology, a multitude of recommender systems exists which analyzes user features and browsing patterns to recommend appealing advertisements to users. In th...
computer science
838
Overcoming Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Demonstrations
cs.LG
Exploration in environments with sparse rewards has been a persistent problem in reinforcement learning (RL). Many tasks are natural to specify with a sparse reward, and manually shaping a reward function can result in suboptimal performance. However, finding a non-zero reward is exponentially more difficult with incre...
computer science
839
Lattice Recurrent Unit: Improving Convergence and Statistical Efficiency for Sequence Modeling
cs.LG
Recurrent neural networks have shown remarkable success in modeling sequences. However low resource situations still adversely affect the generalizability of these models. We introduce a new family of models, called Lattice Recurrent Units (LRU), to address the challenge of learning deep multi-layer recurrent models wi...
computer science
840
Scalable Recollections for Continual Lifelong Learning
cs.LG
Given the recent success of Deep Learning applied to a variety of single tasks, it is natural to consider more human-realistic settings. Perhaps the most difficult of these settings is that of continual lifelong learning, where the model must learn online over a continuous stream of non-stationary data. A continual lif...
computer science
841
Hidden Tree Markov Networks: Deep and Wide Learning for Structured Data
cs.LG
The paper introduces the Hidden Tree Markov Network (HTN), a neuro-probabilistic hybrid fusing the representation power of generative models for trees with the incremental and discriminative learning capabilities of neural networks. We put forward a modular architecture in which multiple generative models of limited co...
computer science
842
Hierarchical Actor-Critic
cs.AI
The ability to learn at different resolutions in time may help overcome one of the main challenges in deep reinforcement learning -- sample efficiency. Hierarchical agents that operate at different levels of temporal abstraction can learn tasks more quickly because they can divide the work of learning behaviors among m...
computer science
843
Proximodistal Exploration in Motor Learning as an Emergent Property of Optimization
cs.NE
To harness the complexity of their high-dimensional bodies during sensorimotor development, infants are guided by patterns of freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom. For instance, when learning to reach, infants free the degrees of freedom in their arm proximodistally, i.e. from joints that are closer to the body t...
computer science
844
Null Dynamical State Models of Human Cognitive Dysfunction
cs.AI
The hard problem in artificial intelligence asks how the shuffling of syntactical symbols in a program can lead to systems which experience semantics and qualia. We address this question in three stages. First, we introduce a new class of human semantic symbols which appears when unexpected and drastic environmental ch...
computer science
845
Accelerating Deep Learning with Memcomputing
cs.LG
Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) and their extensions, called 'deep-belief networks', are powerful neural networks that have found applications in the fields of machine learning and big data. The standard way to training these models resorts to an iterative unsupervised procedure based on Gibbs sampling, called 'co...
computer science
846
mvn2vec: Preservation and Collaboration in Multi-View Network Embedding
cs.SI
Multi-view networks are ubiquitous in real-world applications. In order to extract knowledge or business value, it is of interest to transform such networks into representations that are easily machine-actionable. Meanwhile, network embedding has emerged as an effective approach to generate distributed network represen...
computer science
847
Granger-causal Attentive Mixtures of Experts
cs.LG
Several methods have recently been proposed to detect salient input features for outputs of neural networks. Those methods offer a qualitative glimpse at feature importance, but they fall short of providing quantifiable attributions that can be compared across decisions and measures of the expected quality of their exp...
computer science
848
Memorize or generalize? Searching for a compositional RNN in a haystack
cs.AI
Neural networks are very powerful learning systems, but they do not readily generalize from one task to the other. This is partly due to the fact that they do not learn in a compositional way, that is, by discovering skills that are shared by different tasks, and recombining them to solve new problems. In this paper, w...
computer science
849
Continual Reinforcement Learning with Complex Synapses
cs.AI
Unlike humans, who are capable of continual learning over their lifetimes, artificial neural networks have long been known to suffer from a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting, whereby new learning can lead to abrupt erasure of previously acquired knowledge. Whereas in a neural network the parameters are typica...
computer science
850
Meta-Reinforcement Learning of Structured Exploration Strategies
cs.LG
Exploration is a fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). Many of the current exploration methods for deep RL use task-agnostic objectives, such as information gain or bonuses based on state visitation. However, many practical applications of RL involve learning more than a single task, and prior tasks can...
computer science
851
Approximation Algorithms for Cascading Prediction Models
cs.LG
We present an approximation algorithm that takes a pool of pre-trained models as input and produces from it a cascaded model with similar accuracy but lower average-case cost. Applied to state-of-the-art ImageNet classification models, this yields up to a 2x reduction in floating point multiplications, and up to a 6x r...
computer science
852
Coloring black boxes: visualization of neural network decisions
cs.NE
Neural networks are commonly regarded as black boxes performing incomprehensible functions. For classification problems networks provide maps from high dimensional feature space to K-dimensional image space. Images of training vector are projected on polygon vertices, providing visualization of network function. Such v...
computer science
853
Relational Neural Expectation Maximization: Unsupervised Discovery of Objects and their Interactions
cs.LG
Common-sense physical reasoning is an essential ingredient for any intelligent agent operating in the real-world. For example, it can be used to simulate the environment, or to infer the state of parts of the world that are currently unobserved. In order to match real-world conditions this causal knowledge must be lear...
computer science
854
A Bayesian Model for Activities Recommendation and Event Structure Optimization Using Visitors Tracking
cs.NE
In events that are composed by many activities, there is a problem that involves retrieve and management the information of visitors that are visiting the activities. This management is crucial to find some activities that are drawing attention of visitors; identify an ideal positioning for activities; which path is mo...
computer science
855
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Training Pruned Neural Networks
cs.LG
Recent work on neural network pruning indicates that, at training time, neural networks need to be significantly larger in size than is necessary to represent the eventual functions that they learn. This paper articulates a new hypothesis to explain this phenomenon. This conjecture, which we term the "lottery ticket hy...
computer science
856
Learning recurrent dynamics in spiking networks
cs.AI
Spiking activity of neurons engaged in learning and performing a task show complex spatiotemporal dynamics. While the output of recurrent network models can learn to perform various tasks, the possible range of recurrent dynamics that emerge after learning remains unknown. Here we show that modifying the recurrent conn...
computer science
857
Principal Graphs and Manifolds
cs.LG
In many physical, statistical, biological and other investigations it is desirable to approximate a system of points by objects of lower dimension and/or complexity. For this purpose, Karl Pearson invented principal component analysis in 1901 and found 'lines and planes of closest fit to system of points'. The famous k...
computer science
858
Sparse Penalty in Deep Belief Networks: Using the Mixed Norm Constraint
cs.NE
Deep Belief Networks (DBN) have been successfully applied on popular machine learning tasks. Specifically, when applied on hand-written digit recognition, DBNs have achieved approximate accuracy rates of 98.8%. In an effort to optimize the data representation achieved by the DBN and maximize their descriptive power, re...
computer science
859
Understanding Dropout: Training Multi-Layer Perceptrons with Auxiliary Independent Stochastic Neurons
cs.NE
In this paper, a simple, general method of adding auxiliary stochastic neurons to a multi-layer perceptron is proposed. It is shown that the proposed method is a generalization of recently successful methods of dropout (Hinton et al., 2012), explicit noise injection (Vincent et al., 2010; Bishop, 1995) and semantic has...
computer science
860
Locally Imposing Function for Generalized Constraint Neural Networks - A Study on Equality Constraints
cs.NE
This work is a further study on the Generalized Constraint Neural Network (GCNN) model [1], [2]. Two challenges are encountered in the study, that is, to embed any type of prior information and to select its imposing schemes. The work focuses on the second challenge and studies a new constraint imposing scheme for equa...
computer science
861
Evolution of Covariance Functions for Gaussian Process Regression using Genetic Programming
cs.NE
In this contribution we describe an approach to evolve composite covariance functions for Gaussian processes using genetic programming. A critical aspect of Gaussian processes and similar kernel-based models such as SVM is, that the covariance function should be adapted to the modeled data. Frequently, the squared expo...
computer science
862
Gaussian-binary Restricted Boltzmann Machines on Modeling Natural Image Statistics
cs.NE
We present a theoretical analysis of Gaussian-binary restricted Boltzmann machines (GRBMs) from the perspective of density models. The key aspect of this analysis is to show that GRBMs can be formulated as a constrained mixture of Gaussians, which gives a much better insight into the model's capabilities and limitation...
computer science
863
Training Restricted Boltzmann Machine by Perturbation
cs.NE
A new approach to maximum likelihood learning of discrete graphical models and RBM in particular is introduced. Our method, Perturb and Descend (PD) is inspired by two ideas (I) perturb and MAP method for sampling (II) learning by Contrastive Divergence minimization. In contrast to perturb and MAP, PD leverages trainin...
computer science
864
Multilayer bootstrap networks
cs.LG
Multilayer bootstrap network builds a gradually narrowed multilayer nonlinear network from bottom up for unsupervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Each layer of the network is a nonparametric density estimator. It consists of a group of k-centroids clusterings. Each clustering randomly selects data points with r...
computer science
865
Invariant backpropagation: how to train a transformation-invariant neural network
stat.ML
In many classification problems a classifier should be robust to small variations in the input vector. This is a desired property not only for particular transformations, such as translation and rotation in image classification problems, but also for all others for which the change is small enough to retain the object ...
computer science
866
Shared latent subspace modelling within Gaussian-Binary Restricted Boltzmann Machines for NIST i-Vector Challenge 2014
cs.LG
This paper presents a novel approach to speaker subspace modelling based on Gaussian-Binary Restricted Boltzmann Machines (GRBM). The proposed model is based on the idea of shared factors as in the Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA). GRBM hidden layer is divided into speaker and channel factors, herein t...
computer science
867
A Neural Transfer Function for a Smooth and Differentiable Transition Between Additive and Multiplicative Interactions
stat.ML
Existing approaches to combine both additive and multiplicative neural units either use a fixed assignment of operations or require discrete optimization to determine what function a neuron should perform. This leads either to an inefficient distribution of computational resources or an extensive increase in the comput...
computer science
868
A Probabilistic Framework for Deep Learning
stat.ML
We develop a probabilistic framework for deep learning based on the Deep Rendering Mixture Model (DRMM), a new generative probabilistic model that explicitly capture variations in data due to latent task nuisance variables. We demonstrate that max-sum inference in the DRMM yields an algorithm that exactly reproduces th...
computer science
869
Neurogenesis Deep Learning
cs.NE
Neural machine learning methods, such as deep neural networks (DNN), have achieved remarkable success in a number of complex data processing tasks. These methods have arguably had their strongest impact on tasks such as image and audio processing - data processing domains in which humans have long held clear advantages...
computer science
870
Deep learning for neuroimaging: a validation study
cs.NE
Deep learning methods have recently made notable advances in the tasks of classification and representation learning. These tasks are important for brain imaging and neuroscience discovery, making the methods attractive for porting to a neuroimager's toolbox. Success of these methods is, in part, explained by the flexi...
computer science
871
Improving Deep Neural Networks with Probabilistic Maxout Units
stat.ML
We present a probabilistic variant of the recently introduced maxout unit. The success of deep neural networks utilizing maxout can partly be attributed to favorable performance under dropout, when compared to rectified linear units. It however also depends on the fact that each maxout unit performs a pooling operation...
computer science
872
How Many Dissimilarity/Kernel Self Organizing Map Variants Do We Need?
stat.ML
In numerous applicative contexts, data are too rich and too complex to be represented by numerical vectors. A general approach to extend machine learning and data mining techniques to such data is to really on a dissimilarity or on a kernel that measures how different or similar two objects are. This approach has been ...
computer science
873
Deep Unfolding: Model-Based Inspiration of Novel Deep Architectures
cs.LG
Model-based methods and deep neural networks have both been tremendously successful paradigms in machine learning. In model-based methods, problem domain knowledge can be built into the constraints of the model, typically at the expense of difficulties during inference. In contrast, deterministic deep neural networks a...
computer science
874
Learning deep dynamical models from image pixels
stat.ML
Modeling dynamical systems is important in many disciplines, e.g., control, robotics, or neurotechnology. Commonly the state of these systems is not directly observed, but only available through noisy and potentially high-dimensional observations. In these cases, system identification, i.e., finding the measurement map...
computer science
875
From neural PCA to deep unsupervised learning
stat.ML
A network supporting deep unsupervised learning is presented. The network is an autoencoder with lateral shortcut connections from the encoder to decoder at each level of the hierarchy. The lateral shortcut connections allow the higher levels of the hierarchy to focus on abstract invariant features. While standard auto...
computer science
876
Qualitatively characterizing neural network optimization problems
cs.NE
Training neural networks involves solving large-scale non-convex optimization problems. This task has long been believed to be extremely difficult, with fear of local minima and other obstacles motivating a variety of schemes to improve optimization, such as unsupervised pretraining. However, modern neural networks are...
computer science
877
Why does Deep Learning work? - A perspective from Group Theory
cs.LG
Why does Deep Learning work? What representations does it capture? How do higher-order representations emerge? We study these questions from the perspective of group theory, thereby opening a new approach towards a theory of Deep learning. One factor behind the recent resurgence of the subject is a key algorithmic st...
computer science
878
ADASECANT: Robust Adaptive Secant Method for Stochastic Gradient
cs.LG
Stochastic gradient algorithms have been the main focus of large-scale learning problems and they led to important successes in machine learning. The convergence of SGD depends on the careful choice of learning rate and the amount of the noise in stochastic estimates of the gradients. In this paper, we propose a new ad...
computer science
879
A Unified Perspective on Multi-Domain and Multi-Task Learning
stat.ML
In this paper, we provide a new neural-network based perspective on multi-task learning (MTL) and multi-domain learning (MDL). By introducing the concept of a semantic descriptor, this framework unifies MDL and MTL as well as encompassing various classic and recent MTL/MDL algorithms by interpreting them as different w...
computer science
880
A Neural Network Anomaly Detector Using the Random Cluster Model
cs.LG
The random cluster model is used to define an upper bound on a distance measure as a function of the number of data points to be classified and the expected value of the number of classes to form in a hybrid K-means and regression classification methodology, with the intent of detecting anomalies. Conditions are given ...
computer science
881
A Group Theoretic Perspective on Unsupervised Deep Learning
cs.LG
Why does Deep Learning work? What representations does it capture? How do higher-order representations emerge? We study these questions from the perspective of group theory, thereby opening a new approach towards a theory of Deep learning. One factor behind the recent resurgence of the subject is a key algorithmic st...
computer science
882
A Generative Model for Deep Convolutional Learning
stat.ML
A generative model is developed for deep (multi-layered) convolutional dictionary learning. A novel probabilistic pooling operation is integrated into the deep model, yielding efficient bottom-up (pretraining) and top-down (refinement) probabilistic learning. Experimental results demonstrate powerful capabilities of th...
computer science
883
Knowledge Transfer Pre-training
cs.LG
Pre-training is crucial for learning deep neural networks. Most of existing pre-training methods train simple models (e.g., restricted Boltzmann machines) and then stack them layer by layer to form the deep structure. This layer-wise pre-training has found strong theoretical foundation and broad empirical support. Howe...
computer science
884
Stacked What-Where Auto-encoders
stat.ML
We present a novel architecture, the "stacked what-where auto-encoders" (SWWAE), which integrates discriminative and generative pathways and provides a unified approach to supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning without relying on sampling during training. An instantiation of SWWAE uses a convolutional ne...
computer science
885
Training recurrent networks online without backtracking
cs.NE
We introduce the "NoBackTrack" algorithm to train the parameters of dynamical systems such as recurrent neural networks. This algorithm works in an online, memoryless setting, thus requiring no backpropagation through time, and is scalable, avoiding the large computational and memory cost of maintaining the full gradie...
computer science
886
Deep clustering: Discriminative embeddings for segmentation and separation
cs.NE
We address the problem of acoustic source separation in a deep learning framework we call "deep clustering." Rather than directly estimating signals or masking functions, we train a deep network to produce spectrogram embeddings that are discriminative for partition labels given in training data. Previous deep network ...
computer science
887
Scalable Out-of-Sample Extension of Graph Embeddings Using Deep Neural Networks
stat.ML
Several popular graph embedding techniques for representation learning and dimensionality reduction rely on performing computationally expensive eigendecompositions to derive a nonlinear transformation of the input data space. The resulting eigenvectors encode the embedding coordinates for the training samples only, an...
computer science
888
Model Accuracy and Runtime Tradeoff in Distributed Deep Learning:A Systematic Study
stat.ML
This paper presents Rudra, a parameter server based distributed computing framework tuned for training large-scale deep neural networks. Using variants of the asynchronous stochastic gradient descent algorithm we study the impact of synchronization protocol, stale gradient updates, minibatch size, learning rates, and n...
computer science
889
Convolutional Networks on Graphs for Learning Molecular Fingerprints
cs.LG
We introduce a convolutional neural network that operates directly on graphs. These networks allow end-to-end learning of prediction pipelines whose inputs are graphs of arbitrary size and shape. The architecture we present generalizes standard molecular feature extraction methods based on circular fingerprints. We sho...
computer science
890
Population-Contrastive-Divergence: Does Consistency help with RBM training?
cs.LG
Estimating the log-likelihood gradient with respect to the parameters of a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) typically requires sampling using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques. To save computation time, the Markov chains are only run for a small number of steps, which leads to a biased estimate. This bias ca...
computer science
891
AtomNet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Bioactivity Prediction in Structure-based Drug Discovery
cs.LG
Deep convolutional neural networks comprise a subclass of deep neural networks (DNN) with a constrained architecture that leverages the spatial and temporal structure of the domain they model. Convolutional networks achieve the best predictive performance in areas such as speech and image recognition by hierarchically ...
computer science
892
Distillation as a Defense to Adversarial Perturbations against Deep Neural Networks
cs.CR
Deep learning algorithms have been shown to perform extremely well on many classical machine learning problems. However, recent studies have shown that deep learning, like other machine learning techniques, is vulnerable to adversarial samples: inputs crafted to force a deep neural network (DNN) to provide adversary-se...
computer science
893
The Variational Gaussian Process
stat.ML
Variational inference is a powerful tool for approximate inference, and it has been recently applied for representation learning with deep generative models. We develop the variational Gaussian process (VGP), a Bayesian nonparametric variational family, which adapts its shape to match complex posterior distributions. T...
computer science
894
Partial Reinitialisation for Optimisers
stat.ML
Heuristic optimisers which search for an optimal configuration of variables relative to an objective function often get stuck in local optima where the algorithm is unable to find further improvement. The standard approach to circumvent this problem involves periodically restarting the algorithm from random initial con...
computer science
895
Efficient Representation of Low-Dimensional Manifolds using Deep Networks
cs.NE
We consider the ability of deep neural networks to represent data that lies near a low-dimensional manifold in a high-dimensional space. We show that deep networks can efficiently extract the intrinsic, low-dimensional coordinates of such data. We first show that the first two layers of a deep network can exactly embed...
computer science
896
Enhanced perceptrons using contrastive biclusters
cs.NE
Perceptrons are neuronal devices capable of fully discriminating linearly separable classes. Although straightforward to implement and train, their applicability is usually hindered by non-trivial requirements imposed by real-world classification problems. Therefore, several approaches, such as kernel perceptrons, have...
computer science
897
Alternating optimization method based on nonnegative matrix factorizations for deep neural networks
cs.LG
The backpropagation algorithm for calculating gradients has been widely used in computation of weights for deep neural networks (DNNs). This method requires derivatives of objective functions and has some difficulties finding appropriate parameters such as learning rate. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for c...
computer science
898
Robust Large Margin Deep Neural Networks
stat.ML
The generalization error of deep neural networks via their classification margin is studied in this work. Our approach is based on the Jacobian matrix of a deep neural network and can be applied to networks with arbitrary non-linearities and pooling layers, and to networks with different architectures such as feed forw...
computer science
899
No bad local minima: Data independent training error guarantees for multilayer neural networks
stat.ML
We use smoothed analysis techniques to provide guarantees on the training loss of Multilayer Neural Networks (MNNs) at differentiable local minima. Specifically, we examine MNNs with piecewise linear activation functions, quadratic loss and a single output, under mild over-parametrization. We prove that for a MNN with ...
computer science