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Noise regularisation in deep nets makes them behave like Gaussian processes.
problem Understanding the behavior of noise-regularized deep neural networks as Gaussian processes.
method Analyzing the impact of noise regularisation on neural network Gaussian processes (NNGPs) and relating their behavior to signal propagation theory.
result Best performing NNGPs have kernel parameters corresponding to a specific initialisation scheme.
Stochastic regularisation is an important weapon in the arsenal of a deep learning practitioner. However, despite recent theoretical advances, our understanding of how noise influences signal propagation in deep neural networks remains limited. By extending recent work based on mean field theory, we develop a new frame…
This paper examines the assumptions of the derived equivalence between dropout noise injection and L2 regularisation for logistic regression with negative log loss. We show that the approximation method is based on a divergent Taylor expansion, making, subsequent work using this approximation to compare the dropout …
Denoising autoencoders (DAEs) have proven useful for unsupervised representation learning, but a thorough theoretical understanding is still lacking of how the input noise influences learning. Here we develop theory for how noise influences learning in DAEs. By focusing on linear DAEs, we are able to derive analytic ex…
A trade-off exists between reconstruction quality and the prior regularisation in the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) loss that Variational Autoencoder (VAE) models use for learning. There are few satisfactory approaches to deal with a balance between the prior and reconstruction objective, with most methods dealing with t…
This paper improves inverse problem solving with weakly convex regularisers and proves convergence.
problem Improving solution methods for inverse problems.
method Generalised formulation of convergent regularisation using weakly convex regularisers, and proof of convergence for primal-dual hybrid gradient method.
result Proves convergence of primal-dual hybrid gradient method for variational problems and shows improved performance with IWCNNs.
This paper addresses the issue of feature importance landscapes in complex images and proposes a regularisation technique to improve network performance.
problem Feature importance landscapes in complex images are not as uniform as assumed, affecting network performance.
method Developed the PILCRO objective to regularize weight configurations, making importance landscapes smoother and more data-driven.
result P-regularised networks have a flat importance landscape, train faster, and perform better in accuracy and robustness.
We consider a general regularised interpolation problem for learning a parameter vector from data. The well known representer theorem says that under certain conditions on the regulariser there exists a solution in the linear span of the data points. This is the core of kernel methods in machine learning as it makes th…
We introduce a class of regularisable infinite dimensional principal fibre bundles which includes fibre bundles arising in gauge field theories like Yang-Mills and string theory and which generalise finite dimensional Riemannian principal fibre bundles induced by an isometric action. We show that the orbits of regulari…
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a fast growing approach to measure the genome-wide transcriptome of many individual cells in parallel, but results in noisy data with many dropout events. Existing methods to learn molecular signatures from bulk transcriptomic data may therefore not be adapted to scRNA-seq data…
Despite recent advances in regularisation theory, the issue of parameter selection still remains a challenge for most applications. In a recent work the framework of statistical learning was used to approximate the optimal Tikhonov regularisation parameter from noisy data. In this work, we improve their results and ext…
Marginalising out uncertain quantities within the internal representations or parameters of neural networks is of central importance for a wide range of learning techniques, such as empirical, variational or full Bayesian methods. We set out to generalise fast dropout (Wang & Manning, 2013) to cover a wider variety of …
Study on GD and SGD over diagonal networks, focusing on stepsizes and regularisation.
problem Understanding the impact of stochasticity and large stepsizes on gradient descent and SGD solutions.
method Investigation of GD and SGD over diagonal linear networks with macroscopic stepsizes, proving convergence and characterizing solutions.
result Large stepsizes consistently benefit SGD for sparse regression problems, but can hinder GD recovery of sparse solutions, especially in the edge of stability regime.
We propose graph-dependent implicit regularisation strategies for distributed stochastic subgradient descent (Distributed SGD) for convex problems in multi-agent learning. Under the standard assumptions of convexity, Lipschitz continuity, and smoothness, we establish statistical learning rates that retain, up to logari…
This work shows how penalising bias terms in norm regularisation leads to sparse solutions.
problem Understanding the relation between parameter norm regularization and the sparsity of neural network solutions.
method Analyzes one hidden ReLU layer networks with unidimensional data, showing the norm required for function representation and the importance of the bias term's norm.
result Penalising the bias terms in regularisation leads to sparse solutions, enforcing the uniqueness and sparsity of the minimal norm interpolator.