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48 results for hidden representation

DenseHMM improves HMMs by learning dense representations that enable gradient-based optimization.

problem Learning dense representations for hidden states and observables in HMMs.
method DenseHMM uses kernelized transition probabilities and two optimization schemes.
result DenseHMM achieves superior performance and expressiveness compared to standard HMMs.

We study how finite Bayesian neural networks adapt their hidden representations.

problem Understanding how finite Bayesian neural networks differ from infinite ones.
method We analyze the asymptotics of learned feature kernels for various network architectures.
result The leading finite-width corrections to feature kernels have a universal form.

In this paper, we introduce transformations of deep rectifier networks, enabling the conversion of deep rectifier networks into shallow rectifier networks. We subsequently prove that any rectifier net of any depth can be represented by a maximum of a number of functions that can be realized by a shallow network with a …

2017-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Hidden symmetry of a G'-space X is defined by an extension of the G'-action on X to that of a group G containing G' as a subgroup. In this setting, we study the relationship between the three objects: (A) global analysis on X by using representations of G (hidden symmetry); (B) global analysis on X by using representat…

2016-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper aims to develop a new and robust approach to feature representation. Motivated by the success of Auto-Encoders, we first theoretical summarize the general properties of all algorithms that are based on traditional Auto-Encoders: 1) The reconstruction error of the input can not be lower than a lower bound, wh…

2017-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Revisits the connection between neural networks and the Kolmogorov-Arnold theorem.

problem Explains the limitations of using the Kolmogorov-Arnold theorem to explain neural networks with multiple hidden layers.
method Derives modifications of the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation that transfer smoothness properties to the outer function and can be well approximated by ReLU networks.
result Shows that a deep neural network with most layers approximating the interior function is a more natural interpretation of the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation.

Study reveals differences in medical image models' hidden representation refinement.

problem Understanding how intrinsic dimensionality changes in neural network hidden representations across different domains.
method Analysis of 11 natural and medical image datasets using 6 network architectures.
result Medical image models refine hidden representations earlier, suggesting differences in feature abstraction.

Spectral graph sparsification preserves geometry of GNN embeddings.

problem Maintaining geometric properties of graph neural network embeddings during sparsification.
method Proving spectral sparsification preserves squared pairwise distances, class means, and covariance structure in embedding space.
result Spectral sparsification preserves the geometry of learned embeddings in GNNs.

The autoencoder is an artificial neural network model that learns hidden representations of unlabeled data. With a linear transfer function it is similar to the principal component analysis (PCA). While both methods use weight vectors for linear transformations, the autoencoder does not come with any indication similar…

2017-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We explore and expand the Soft Nearest Neighbor Loss\textit{Soft Nearest Neighbor Loss} to measure the entanglement\textit{entanglement} of class manifolds in representation space: i.e., how close pairs of points from the same class are relative to pairs of points from different classes. We demonstrate several use cases of the loss. As an analytical to…

2019-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study explores reinforcement learning in a complex game environment, analyzing rule inference and policy learning.

problem Learning optimal policies in environments with hidden rules.
method Investigated using the Game Of Hidden Rules (GOHR) environment, employing Feature-Centric and Object-Centric state representations with a Transformer-based A2C algorithm.
result Transformer-based A2C models outperform traditional methods in GOHR, demonstrating the effectiveness of representation strategies.

Paper proposes a new model and methods for robustly de-interleaving HMP mixtures.

problem Lack of robustness to non-ideal situations in existing HMP mixtures de-interleaving methods.
method Designs a generative model, formulates de-interleaving as posterior inference, develops exact and approximate inference methods, derives error probability bounds.
result Proposed methods are highly effective and robust for non-ideal situations, outperforming baseline methods.

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) enforces supervised information only at the output layer, and hidden layers are trained by back propagating the prediction error from the output layer without explicit supervision. We propose a supervised feature learning approach, Label Consistent Neural Network, which enforces…

2016-02-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation aims to learn a model on a source domain with labeled data in order to perform well on unlabeled data of a target domain. Current approaches focus on learning \textit{Domain Invariant Representations}. It relies on the assumption that such representations are well-suited for learning the …

2019-07-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Wide neural networks' last hidden layers split into groups of redundant neurons.

problem Understanding why wide neural networks generalize well despite overfitting.
method Analyzed the last hidden layer representations of various convolutional neural networks.
result Wide hidden layers split into groups of redundant neurons, which help generalize.

Study shows label noise impacts neural representations' information content, revealing double descent behavior.

problem Impact of label noise on neural network hidden representations.
method Information Imbalance proxy of conditional mutual information to compare hidden representations.
result Representations learned with noisy labels are more informative than those with clean labels in the underparameterized regime, and equally informative in the overparameterized regime.

There is some theoretical evidence that deep neural networks with multiple hidden layers have a potential for more efficient representation of multidimensional mappings than shallow networks with a single hidden layer. The question is whether it is possible to exploit this theoretical advantage for finding such represe…

2019-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

A neural network with a single hidden layer can't represent certain multivariable functions.

problem Representing certain multivariable functions with a neural network having only one hidden layer.
method Developed a continuum version of a one-hidden-layer neural network with ReLU activation, and proved constraints on its parameters and second derivative.
result Existence of a smooth binary function that cannot be precisely represented by any such neural network.

Regularized training of an autoencoder typically results in hidden unit biases that take on large negative values. We show that negative biases are a natural result of using a hidden layer whose responsibility is to both represent the input data and act as a selection mechanism that ensures sparsity of the representati…

2014-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Debias recommender systems by accounting for hidden confounders using network information.

problem Debiased recommender systems to reduce bias caused by hidden confounders.
method Leverage network information to disentangle user conformity and item popularity, modeling exposure and ratings while controlling hidden confounders.
result The proposed method effectively debiases recommender systems, improving recommendation accuracy.

We present a novel neural network algorithm, the Tensor Switching (TS) network, which generalizes the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) nonlinearity to tensor-valued hidden units. The TS network copies its entire input vector to different locations in an expanded representation, with the location determined by its hidden un…

2016-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Kolmogorov neural networks can represent various types of functions.

problem Representing different types of functions with neural networks.
method Continuous, discontinuous bounded or unbounded activation functions in a two hidden layer model.
result Kolmogorov neural networks can represent continuous, discontinuous bounded and all unbounded multivariate functions.

We provide a classification of graphical models according to their representation as subfamilies of exponential families. Undirected graphical models with no hidden variables are linear exponential families (LEFs), directed acyclic graphical models and chain graphs with no hidden variables, including Bayesian networks …

2013-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on hidden units in finite Bayesian neural networks and their tail properties.

problem Understanding the behavior of hidden units in finite Bayesian neural networks.
method Introduced a generalized Weibull-tail property to describe hidden units tails.
result Unit priors become heavier-tailed going deeper, providing insights into finite Bayesian neural networks.

C2^2VAE learns disentangled and coupled representations without prior knowledge.

problem Learning disentangled and coupled representations in latent space.
method Introduces C2^2VAE, a self-supervised VAE that factorizes posterior and uses Gaussian copula for dependencies.
result Demonstrates strong effect in enhancing disentangled representation learning.

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 ↗

Deep learning has recently been shown to be instrumental in the problem of domain adaptation, where the goal is to learn a model on a target domain using a similar --but not identical-- source domain. The rationale for coupling both techniques is the possibility of extracting common concepts across domains. Considering…

2018-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper extends depth separation results to piece-wise oscillatory functions.

problem Approximating functions with piece-wise oscillatory structure using neural networks.
method Extends existing results to piece-wise oscillatory functions using proof strategy from (Eldan and Shamir, 2016).
result Approximation by one-hidden-layer networks holds at a poly(d) rate for functions with constant domain radius and oscillation rate.

This paper continues our exploration of homology cobordism of 3-manifolds using our recent results on Cheeger-Gromov rho-invariants associated to amenable representations. We introduce a new type of torsion in 3-manifold groups we call hidden torsion, and an algebraic approximation we call local hidden torsion. We cons…

2011-01-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural networks excel at learning the training data, but often provide incorrect and confident predictions when evaluated on slightly different test examples. This includes distribution shifts, outliers, and adversarial examples. To address these issues, we propose Manifold Mixup, a simple regularizer that encoura…

2018-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes DWMD for better matching of hidden representations across domains.

problem Measuring data distribution discrepancy between semantically related domains for feature representation matching.
method DWMD, a moment-based probability distribution metric that explicitly orders and weights higher-order moments.
result DWMD is error-free and can strictly reflect distribution differences without feature distribution assumptions.

Recent results on optimization and generalization properties of neural networks showed that in a simple two-layer network, the alignment of the labels to the eigenvectors of the corresponding Gram matrix determines the convergence of the optimization during training. Such analyses also provide upper bounds on the gener…

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for causal effect estimation with hidden confounders.

problem Estimating causal effects in the presence of hidden confounders.
method Singular value decomposition of a conditional expectation operator followed by saddle-point optimization.
result Our method outperforms existing methods on common benchmarks.

We solve a high-dimensional model where nonlinear autoencoders detect hidden structure missed by PCA.

problem Hidden structure in high-dimensional data not detected by PCA.
method Tractable spiked model with two latent factors, one visible and one uncorrelated.
result Nonlinear autoencoders can extract hidden structure missed by PCA, even if reconstruction loss is higher.

Compressed LLM embeddings improve noisy regression tasks without overfitting.

problem Noisy regression tasks with high signal-to-noise ratios.
method Comparison of embedding compression techniques using autoencoder hidden representations.
result Compression improves performance on noisy tasks like financial return prediction.

This study investigates abrupt learning dynamics in Transformers, revealing plateau formation and internal representation collapse.

problem Abrupt learning in Transformers, particularly during the loss plateau.
method Investigates mechanisms of abrupt learning in shallow Transformers, focusing on attention maps and hidden states.
result Reveals plateau formation, internal representation collapse, and strong repetition bias in outputs.