Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) stand at the forefront of many recent developments in deep learning. Yet a major difficulty with these models is their tendency to overfit, with dropout shown to fail when applied to recurrent layers. Recent results at the intersection of Bayesian modelling and deep learning offer a Bay…
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Successful application processing sequential data, such as text and speech, requires an improved generalization performance of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Dropout techniques for RNNs were introduced to respond to these demands, but we conjecture that the dropout on RNNs could have been improved by adopting the ad…
Recurrent neural networks show state-of-the-art results in many text analysis tasks but often require a lot of memory to store their weights. Recently proposed Sparse Variational Dropout eliminates the majority of the weights in a feed-forward neural network without significant loss of quality. We apply this technique …
Study shows GRU model with dropout outperforms in Bitcoin price prediction.
problem Predicting Bitcoin price and volatility using machine learning.
method Advanced machine learning methods including GRU with recurrent dropout, feature engineering, and RMSE evaluation.
result Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) model with recurrent dropout outperforms traditional models in Bitcoin price prediction.
QSD enhances deep network performance through biologically plausible dropout.
problem Overfitting in deep networks.
method Quantal Synaptic Dilution (QSD) model based on neuronal synapses.
result QSD outperforms standard dropout in various deep network architectures.
Dropout is a popular regularization technique in deep learning. Yet, the reason for its success is still not fully understood. This paper provides a new interpretation of Dropout from a frame theory perspective. By drawing a connection to recent developments in analog channel coding, we suggest that for a certain famil…
Fraternal Dropoutstat.ML
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are important class of architectures among neural networks useful for language modeling and sequential prediction. However, optimizing RNNs is known to be harder compared to feed-forward neural networks. A number of techniques have been proposed in literature to address this problem. In…
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are rich models for the processing of sequential data. Recent work on advancing the state of the art has been focused on the optimization or modelling of RNNs, mostly motivated by adressing the problems of the vanishing and exploding gradients. The control of overfitting has seen consid…
Advancements in parallel processing have lead to a surge in multilayer perceptrons' (MLP) applications and deep learning in the past decades. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) give additional representational power to feedforward MLPs by providing a way to treat sequential data. However, RNNs are hard to train using con…
In this paper, we propose a novel regularization method, RotationOut, for neural networks. Different from Dropout that handles each neuron/channel independently, RotationOut regards its input layer as an entire vector and introduces regularization by randomly rotating the vector. RotationOut can also be used in convolu…
Unlike machines, humans learn through rapid, abstract model-building. The role of a teacher is not simply to hammer home right or wrong answers, but rather to provide intuitive comments, comparisons, and explanations to a pupil. This is what the Learning Under Privileged Information (LUPI) paradigm endeavors to model b…
Improved neural network predicts tropical storm trajectories and Bayesian intervals.
problem Accurately predicting the trajectories of tropical storms to prevent damage.
method Developed an improved RNN model with dropout to predict Bayesian intervals.
result Neural network dropout values significantly affect prediction accuracy and intervals.
In this paper, we present an effective deep prediction framework based on robust recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to predict the likely therapeutic classes of medications a patient is taking, given a sequence of diagnostic billing codes in their record. Accurately capturing the list of medications currently taken by a …
Proposes a new model for time-to-event prediction with uncertainty quantification.
problem Lack of uncertainty in time-to-event predictions using recurrent neural networks.
method Deep Kernel Accelerated Failure Time models combining RNN and sparse Gaussian Process.
result Model delivers better uncertainty estimates compared to related methods.
The paper presents a novel, principled approach to train recurrent neural networks from the Reservoir Computing family that are robust to missing part of the input features at prediction time. By building on the ensembling properties of Dropout regularization, we propose a methodology, named DropIn, which efficiently t…
It is a well-known fact that adding noise to the input data often improves network performance. While the dropout technique may be a cause of memory loss, when it is applied to recurrent connections, Tikhonov regularization, which can be regarded as the training with additive noise, avoids this issue naturally, though …
Advanced Dropout improves DNN performance without requiring model-specific dropout techniques.
problem Overfitting in deep neural networks due to lack of data.
method Model-free, end-to-end training with adaptive dropout rate optimization.
result Advanced Dropout outperforms other techniques on various datasets.
The study of dexterous manipulation has provided important insights in humans sensorimotor control as well as inspiration for manipulation strategies in robotic hands. Previous work focused on experimental environment with restrictions. Here we describe a method using the deformation and color distribution of the finge…
Dropout is a simple but efficient regularization technique for achieving better generalization of deep neural networks (DNNs); hence it is widely used in tasks based on DNNs. During training, dropout randomly discards a portion of the neurons to avoid overfitting. This paper presents an enhanced dropout technique, whic…
Guided Dropoutcs.LG
Dropout is often used in deep neural networks to prevent over-fitting. Conventionally, dropout training invokes \textit{random drop} of nodes from the hidden layers of a Neural Network. It is our hypothesis that a guided selection of nodes for intelligent dropout can lead to better generalization as compared to the tra…
Continuous Dropoutcs.CV
Continuous dropout mimics brain neuron firing rates to prevent feature detector co-adaptation.
problem Preventing overfitting in deep neural networks.
method Extending binary dropout to continuous dropout, inspired by brain neuron firing rates.
result Continuous dropout improves test performance by preventing feature detector co-adaptation.
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are powerful models of sequential data. They have been successfully used in domains such as text and speech. However, RNNs are susceptible to overfitting; regularization is important. In this paper we develop Noisin, a new method for regularizing RNNs. Noisin injects random noise into t…
Dropout regularizes against high-order interactions by canceling interaction rates.
problem Overfitting to high-order interactions in neural networks.
method Analyzes Dropout through the lens of interaction effects, showing how it effectively cancels out the probability of surviving interactions of different orders.
result Dropout regularizes against high-order interactions by effectively canceling out the probability of surviving interactions of different orders.
We analyze dropout in deep networks with rectified linear units and the quadratic loss. Our results expose surprising differences between the behavior of dropout and more traditional regularizers like weight decay. For example, on some simple data sets dropout training produces negative weights even though the output i…
Dropout is one of the key techniques to prevent the learning from overfitting. It is explained that dropout works as a kind of modified L2 regularization. Here, we shed light on the dropout from Bayesian standpoint. Bayesian interpretation enables us to optimize the dropout rate, which is beneficial for learning of wei…
Hessian-free (HF) optimization has been successfully used for training deep autoencoders and recurrent networks. HF uses the conjugate gradient algorithm to construct update directions through curvature-vector products that can be computed on the same order of time as gradients. In this paper we exploit this property a…
Dropout is a simple but effective technique for learning in neural networks and other settings. A sound theoretical understanding of dropout is needed to determine when dropout should be applied and how to use it most effectively. In this paper we continue the exploration of dropout as a regularizer pioneered by Wager,…
Dropout is used to avoid overfitting by randomly dropping units from the neural networks during training. Inspired by dropout, this paper presents GI-Dropout, a novel dropout method integrating with global information to improve neural networks for text classification. Unlike the traditional dropout method in which the…
Dropout has been witnessed with great success in training deep neural networks by independently zeroing out the outputs of neurons at random. It has also received a surge of interest for shallow learning, e.g., logistic regression. However, the independent sampling for dropout could be suboptimal for the sake of conver…
Rate-In dynamically adjusts dropout rates during inference to improve uncertainty estimation in neural networks.
problem Static dropout rates lead to suboptimal uncertainty estimates in neural networks.
method Rate-In dynamically adjusts dropout rates using information-theoretic principles.
result Rate-In improves calibration and sharpens uncertainty estimates compared to fixed or heuristic dropout rates.
Traffic flow forecasting is hot spot research of intelligent traffic system construction. The existing traffic flow prediction methods have problems such as poor stability, high data requirements, or poor adaptability. In this paper, we define the traffic data time singularity ratio in the dropout module and propose a …
Analyzes dropout in neural networks using differential equations.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding of dropout's effectiveness.
method Analytical study of dropout in two-layer neural networks with online stochastic gradient descent.
result Dropout reduces detrimental correlations and optimal probability increases with data noise.
Develops a multilevel Monte Carlo framework with dropout for efficient uncertainty quantification.
problem Efficiently quantify uncertainty in complex models using dropout.
method Integrates multilevel Monte Carlo with Monte Carlo dropout, creating coupled estimators to reduce variance.
result Demonstrates significant variance reduction and efficiency gains over single-level Monte Carlo dropout.
Dropout introduces both explicit and implicit regularization effects.
problem Understanding the full impact of dropout regularization.
method Disentangled explicit and implicit regularization effects through experiments and analytic simplifications.
result Explicit and implicit regularization effects of dropout are distinct and can be characterized analytically.
Dropout technique is analyzed using information geometry.
problem Understanding the regularization performance of dropout in neural networks.
method Unified analysis from information geometry viewpoint.
result Dropout flattens the model manifold and its performance depends on curvature.
The paper analyzes SGD with dropout regularization in linear models, proving asymptotic properties and providing inference tools.
problem Analyzing the behavior of SGD with dropout regularization in linear models.
method Establishing geometric-moment contraction (GMC) and proving quenched central limit theorems (CLT).
result The existence of a unique stationary distribution and asymptotic normality results for SGD with dropout.
Deep learning is the state-of-the-art in fields such as visual object recognition and speech recognition. This learning uses a large number of layers and a huge number of units and connections. Therefore, overfitting is a serious problem with it, and the dropout which is a kind of regularization tool is used. However, …
Dropout has proven to be an effective technique for regularization and preventing the co-adaptation of neurons in deep neural networks (DNN). It randomly drops units with a probability during the training stage of DNN. Dropout also provides a way of approximately combining exponentially many different neural networ…
Dropout training improves neural networks' performance.
problem Improving neural network convergence and generalization.
method Two-layer neural networks with ReLU activations, overparametrization, and positive margin assumption.
result Dropout training achieves ε-suboptimality in test error in O(1/ε) iterations.
The paper improves dropout's utility by reducing interactions in deep neural networks.
problem Over-fitting problem in deep learning.
method Game-theoretic interactions analysis and interaction loss.
result Interaction loss improves dropout's utility and boosts DNN performance.
Neural language models (LMs) based on recurrent neural networks (RNN) are some of the most successful word and character-level LMs. Why do they work so well, in particular better than linear neural LMs? Possible explanations are that RNNs have an implicitly better regularization or that RNNs have a higher capacity for …
Study compares dropout and l2 regularization in linear models.
problem Understanding the statistical behavior of dropout and l2 regularization in linear models.
method Derives non-asymptotic bounds for gradient descent iterates with dropout and compares them to l2 regularization.
result Indicates a more subtle relationship between dropout and l2 regularization, highlighting interactions between dynamics and randomness.
Qualitative analysis of MC dropout for NN model uncertainty.
problem Measuring uncertainty in neural network models.
method Mathematical formulation of Monte Carlo dropout and its benefits/costs in NN models.
result Potential benefits and associated costs of using MC dropout in NN models.
Dropout as data augmentationstat.ML
Dropout is typically interpreted as bagging a large number of models sharing parameters. We show that using dropout in a network can also be interpreted as a kind of data augmentation in the input space without domain knowledge. We present an approach to projecting the dropout noise within a network back into the input…
Dropout controls model capacity in deep learning and matrix completion.
problem Controlling model capacity in deep learning and matrix completion problems.
method Investigates dropout's effect on model capacity and Rademacher complexity.
result Dropout induces a regularizer that controls model capacity in expectation.
We stabilize the activations of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) by penalizing the squared distance between successive hidden states' norms. This penalty term is an effective regularizer for RNNs including LSTMs and IRNNs, improving performance on character-level language modeling and phoneme recognition, and outperfor…
Continuum Dropout improves neural differential equations by preventing overfitting.
problem Overfitting in Neural Differential Equations (NDEs).
method Introduces Continuum Dropout, a regularization technique based on alternating renewal processes.
result Continuum Dropout outperforms existing methods in various tasks, improving generalization and uncertainty quantification.
The paper improves marine buoy placement to detect ships robustly against disruptions.
problem Detecting fishing vessels in the presence of natural and man-made disruptions.
method Formulated as a clustering problem, used dropout k-means and k-median to improve buoy placement robustness.
result Improved ship detection probability with dropout k-means compared to classic methods.