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A neural network derived from first principles using MaxEnt.
problem Developing a neural network from first principles.
method Derived a neural network using the principle of Maximum Entropy, with linear dimension-reducing transformations and conditional mean estimators.
result Unified theoretical justification for activation functions like sigmoid, softplus, and relu.
We introduce a general-purpose conditioning method for neural networks called FiLM: Feature-wise Linear Modulation. FiLM layers influence neural network computation via a simple, feature-wise affine transformation based on conditioning information. We show that FiLM layers are highly effective for visual reasoning - an…
The rapid development of high-throughput technologies has enabled the generation of data from biological or disease processes that span multiple layers, like genomic, proteomic or metabolomic data, and further pertain to multiple sources, like disease subtypes or experimental conditions. In this work, we propose a gene…
Smectic liquid crystals are materials formed by stacking deformable, fluid layers. Though smectics prefer to have flat, uniformly-spaced layers, boundary conditions can impose curvature on the layers. Since the layer spacing and curvature are intertwined, the problem of finding minimal configurations for the layers bec…
Quantitatively assessing relationships between latent variables and observed variables is important for understanding and developing generative models and representation learning. In this paper, we propose latent-observed dissimilarity (LOD) to evaluate the dissimilarity between the probabilistic characteristics of lat…
Conditional restricted Boltzmann machines are undirected stochastic neural networks with a layer of input and output units connected bipartitely to a layer of hidden units. These networks define models of conditional probability distributions on the states of the output units given the states of the input units, parame…
Improved Q&A model with LSTM and bi-directional attention.
problem Enhancing neural network models for effective question answering.
method Implemented a Bi-directional attention flow layer connected to a Multi-layer LSTM encoder, with a new end-index decoder layer conditioning on start-index output.
result Increased model performance by 15.16% on test set.
Study on functions computed by deep-layered machines finds same distribution in neural networks and Boolean circuits.
problem Understanding the space of functions computed by deep-layered machines.
method Investigation of Boolean functions on random-layered machines, including neural networks and Boolean circuits.
result The space of functions computed at large depth limit is characterized and the macroscopic entropy of Boolean functions is either monotonically increasing or decreasing with depth.
Under several geometric conditions imposed below, the existence of the discrete spectrum below the essential spectrum is shown for the Dirichlet Laplacian on the quantum layer built over a spherically symmetric hypersurface with a pole embedded in the Euclidean space R4. At the end of this paper, we also show the advan…
In this work we compute lower Lipschitz bounds of ℓp pooling operators for p=1,2,∞ as well as ℓp pooling operators preceded by half-rectification layers. These give sufficient conditions for the design of invertible neural network layers. Numerical experiments on MNIST and image patches confirm tha…
We analyze the loss landscape and expressiveness of practical deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with shared weights and max pooling layers. We show that such CNNs produce linearly independent features at a "wide" layer which has more neurons than the number of training samples. This condition holds e.g. for the…
A usual reinsurance policy for insurance companies admits one or two layers of the payment deductions. Under optimal criterion of minimizing the conditional tail expectation (CTE) risk measure of the insurer's total risk, this article generalized an optimal stop-loss reinsurance policy to an optimal multi-layer reinsur…
The muti-layer information bottleneck (IB) problem, where information is propagated (or successively refined) from layer to layer, is considered. Based on information forwarded by the preceding layer, each stage of the network is required to preserve a certain level of relevance with regards to a specific hidden variab…
We give the first provably efficient algorithm for learning a one hidden layer convolutional network with respect to a general class of (potentially overlapping) patches. Additionally, our algorithm requires only mild conditions on the underlying distribution. We prove that our framework captures commonly used schemes …
In this work, we introduce a deep-structured conditional random field (DS-CRF) model for the purpose of state-based object silhouette tracking. The proposed DS-CRF model consists of a series of state layers, where each state layer spatially characterizes the object silhouette at a particular point in time. The interact…
Traditionally, when generative models of data are developed via deep architectures, greedy layer-wise pre-training is employed. In a well-trained model, the lower layer of the architecture models the data distribution conditional upon the hidden variables, while the higher layers model the hidden distribution prior. Bu…
Wide neural networks with weight decay exhibit neural collapse.
problem Proving neural collapse in wide neural networks trained with weight decay.
method Generic guarantees on neural collapse for wide networks with weight decay, proving low training error and balancedness, and bounded conditioning.
result First proof of neural collapse in end-to-end training of wide neural networks with weight decay.