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48 results for Fashion MNIST

MNIST and Fashion MNIST are extremely popular for testing in the machine learning space. Fashion MNIST improves on MNIST by introducing a harder problem, increasing the diversity of testing sets, and more accurately representing a modern computer vision task. In order to increase the data quality of FashionMNIST, this …

2019-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Bidirectional VAE reduces parameters and improves image tasks.

problem Improving image reconstruction, classification, interpolation, and generation.
method Uses a single neural network for both encoding and decoding in both forward and backward directions.
result Bidirectional VAEs reduce parameters by almost 50% and slightly outperform unidirectional VAEs.

Recently, the posit numerical format has shown promise for DNN data representation and compute with ultra-low precision ([5..8]-bit). However, majority of studies focus only on DNN inference. In this work, we propose DNN training using posits and compare with the floating point training. We evaluate on both MNIST and F…

2019-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves domain generalization by matching object representations.

problem Existing domain generalization methods fail to generalize to unseen domains.
method Proposes matching-based algorithms to match object representations across domains.
result MatchDG algorithm matches ground-truth object representations and improves out-of-domain accuracy.

New supervised and unsupervised NFLTs for elliptical distributions.

problem Understanding unsupervised No Free Lunch Theorems for elliptical distributions.
method Proved two equally optimal strategies for elliptical distributions, inspired PRIM-based bump-hunting algorithms.
result Optimal strategies for selecting principal components based on variance or volume.

Faster Tsetlin Machines use clause indexing to speed inference and learning.

problem Overfitting and slow inference in Tsetlin Machines.
method Introduced a look-up table that indexes clauses based on feature falsification, enabling faster evaluation of clauses.
result Up to 15 times faster classification and three times faster learning on MNIST and Fashion-MNIST.

Generative models are known to be difficult to assess. Recent works, especially on generative adversarial networks (GANs), produce good visual samples of varied categories of images. However, the validation of their quality is still difficult to define and there is no existing agreement on the best evaluation process. …

2018-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a stepsize adaptation scheme for stochastic gradient descent. It operates directly with the loss function and rescales the gradient in order to make fixed predicted progress on the loss. We demonstrate its capabilities by conclusively improving the performance of Adam and Momentum optimizers. The enhanced op…

2018-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Symmetry of neural network densities can be determined from correlation functions.

problem Determining symmetries of neural network densities without knowing the density itself.
method Symmetry-via-duality approach using invariance properties of correlation functions.
result Symmetries of neural network densities can be determined via dual computations of correlation functions.

The paper introduces a method to make neural networks more robust to adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to small, adversarially designed perturbations.
method A bottom-up strategy using a nonlinear front end that polarizes and quantizes data.
result The approach can completely eliminate adversarial perturbations on MNIST and Fashion MNIST datasets.

We present a variation of the Autoencoder (AE) that explicitly maximizes the mutual information between the input data and the hidden representation. The proposed model, the InfoMax Autoencoder (IMAE), by construction is able to learn a robust representation and good prototypes of the data. IMAE is compared both theore…

2019-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The interest in machine learning with tensor networks has been growing rapidly in recent years. We show that tensor-based methods developed for learning the governing equations of dynamical systems from data can, in the same way, be used for supervised learning problems and propose two novel approaches for image classi…

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have drawn a lot of attentions for learning the underlying distribution of data in various applications. Despite their wide applicability, training GANs is notoriously difficult. This difficulty is due to the min-max nature of the resulting optimization problem an…

2019-04-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Inspired by coarse-graining approaches used in physics, we show how similar algorithms can be adapted for data. The resulting algorithms are based on layered tree tensor networks and scale linearly with both the dimension of the input and the training set size. Computing most of the layers with an unsupervised algorith…

2017-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

We demonstrate the use of tensor networks for image classification with the TensorNetwork open source library. We explain in detail the encoding of image data into a matrix product state form, and describe how to contract the network in a way that is parallelizable and well-suited to automatic gradients for optimizatio…

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New method learns sparse distributions by thresholding samples, improving performance and efficiency.

problem Sparse coding optimization in high-dimensional problems is computationally expensive and inefficient.
method Proposes a new variational sparse coding approach that learns sparse distributions by thresholding samples.
result Shows superior performance, statistical efficiency, and gradient estimation compared to other sparse distributions.

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) training process, in most cases, apply Uniform or Gaussian sampling methods in the latent space, which probably spends most of the computation on examples that can be properly handled and easy to generate. Theoretically, importance sampling speeds up stochastic optimization in supe…

2019-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate probabilistic decoupling of labels supplied for training, from the underlying classes for prediction. Decoupling enables an inference scheme general enough to implement many classification problems, including supervised, semi-supervised, positive-unlabelled, noisy-label and suggests a general solution to…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a novel adaptive empirical Bayesian method for sparse deep learning, where the sparsity is ensured via a class of self-adaptive spike-and-slab priors. The proposed method works by alternatively sampling from an adaptive hierarchical posterior distribution using stochastic gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (M…

2019-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

This study compares two methods for uncertainty estimation in CNNs, finding Conformal Prediction more reliable.

problem CNNs often overestimate uncertainty, leading to unreliable predictions.
method Bayesian approximation via Monte Carlo Dropout and Conformal Prediction.
result Conformal Prediction produces more reliable uncertainty estimates than Monte Carlo Dropout.

Bayesian learning of model parameters in neural networks is important in scenarios where estimates with well-calibrated uncertainty are important. In this paper, we propose Bayesian quantized networks (BQNs), quantized neural networks (QNNs) for which we learn a posterior distribution over their discrete parameters. We…

2019-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The MEM method uses data-driven priors for linear inverse problems, proving convergence and estimating differences.

problem Linear inverse problems with approximate priors.
method Maximum Entropy on the Mean (MEM) method with data-driven priors.
result Empirical mean convergence and estimates for prior differences based on epigraphical distance.

We address the problem of one-to-many mappings in supervised learning, where a single instance has many different solutions of possibly equal cost. The framework of conditional variational autoencoders describes a class of methods to tackle such structured-prediction tasks by means of latent variables. We propose to in…

2019-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗