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48 results for weight updates

We show that deep networks can be trained using Hebbian updates yielding similar performance to ordinary back-propagation on challenging image datasets. To overcome the unrealistic symmetry in connections between layers, implicit in back-propagation, the feedback weights are separate from the feedforward weights. The f…

2018-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we present a novel approach for fine-tuning a decoder-side neural network in the context of image compression, such that the weight-updates are better compressible. At encoder side, we fine-tune a pre-trained artifact removal network on target data by using a compression objective applied on the weight-u…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

RSO uses random weight perturbations to train deep networks without gradients.

problem Training deep neural networks efficiently and without gradient information.
method RSO is a gradient-free Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach that updates weights based on mini-batch loss reduction.
result RSO achieves high accuracy (99.1% on MNIST) with significantly fewer updates than traditional methods.

Paper proves multiplicative weight updates can train neural networks without learning rate tuning.

problem Vanishing and exploding gradients in gradient descent for compositional functions.
method Proves descent lemma for compositional functions using multiplicative weight updates and derives Madam optimizer.
result Madam optimizer trains state-of-the-art neural networks without learning rate tuning.

We describe kk-MLE, a fast and efficient local search algorithm for learning finite statistical mixtures of exponential families such as Gaussian mixture models. Mixture models are traditionally learned using the expectation-maximization (EM) soft clustering technique that monotonically increases the incomplete (expec…

2012-03-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Online learning makes sequence of decisions with partial data arrival where next movement of data is unknown. In this paper, we have presented a new technique as multiple times weight updating that update the weight iteratively forsame instance. The proposed technique analyzed with popular state-of-art algorithms from …

2018-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Bio-inspired neural networks use predictive coding for efficient weight updates.

problem Training artificial neural networks efficiently and biologically plausibly.
method Predictive Coding (PC) updates weights locally using only local information.
result PC provides theoretical advantages like automatic gradient scaling.

Paper proposes a new activation function to reduce overfitting and large weight update issues.

problem Overfitting and large weight update problems in neural networks.
method Introduces a new activation function called Thresholded Exponential Rectified Linear Units (TERELU).
result TERELU shows better performance in reducing overfitting and large weight update issues compared to other activation functions.

This paper optimizes deep learning training by efficiently sharding weight updates across replicas.

problem Redundant weight update computation on all replicas in data-parallel training.
method Automatic sharding of weight updates using static analysis and transformations on the training graph.
result Substantial speedups achieved on large-scale models using Cloud TPUs.

Fewer data weight updates lead to faster convergence in machine learning models.

problem Improving robustness of machine learning models through data mixing.
method Analyzing convergence behavior of data mixing with a finite number of inner steps.
result The optimal number of inner steps scales with the budget and type of gradients used.

Efficiently optimizes boolean functions using multilinear polynomials and exponential weight updates.

problem Optimizing boolean functions over the boolean hypercube with high computational cost.
method Proposes a computationally efficient algorithm using multilinear polynomials and exponential weight updates.
result Improves computational time up to several orders of magnitude compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.

This paper studies recursive ensembles driven by Fibonacci updates, improving learning dynamics.

problem Improving learning dynamics in recursive ensemble learning.
method Develops second-order recursive architectures with Fibonacci-type update flows.
result Establishes global convergence conditions and generalization bounds for recursive ensembles.

This paper considers the actor-critic contextual bandit for the mobile health (mHealth) intervention. The state-of-the-art decision-making methods in mHealth generally assume that the noise in the dynamic system follows the Gaussian distribution. Those methods use the least-square-based algorithm to estimate the expect…

2017-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Importance sampling (IS) is a common reweighting strategy for off-policy prediction in reinforcement learning. While it is consistent and unbiased, it can result in high variance updates to the weights for the value function. In this work, we explore a resampling strategy as an alternative to reweighting. We propose Im…

2019-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves inference-time alignment for diffusion models without updating weights.

problem Aligning diffusion models without updating weights for high-reward outputs.
method Trust-Region Iterative Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo (TRI-TSMC) for variance reduction and efficiency.
result Improves primary alignment objectives on text generation tasks.

A RL approach dynamically assigns and updates weights of ensemble models for better time series forecasting.

problem Static weight assignment for ensemble models fails to capture dynamic data changes.
method Reinforcement Learning (RL) to dynamically update weights of each model at different time instants.
result Dynamic weighted approach using RL learns weights better than static methods.

We present a confidence-based single-layer feed-forward learning algorithm SPIRAL (Spike Regularized Adaptive Learning) relying on an encoding of activation spikes. We adaptively update a weight vector relying on confidence estimates and activation offsets relative to previous activity. We regularize updates proportion…

2016-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The decremented learning algorithms are required in machine learning, to prune redundant nodes and remove obsolete inline training samples. In this paper, an efficient decremented learning algorithm to prune redundant nodes is deduced from the incremental learning algorithm 1 proposed in [9] for added nodes, and two de…

2019-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

GFM models neural network training as a dynamical system to forecast final weights.

problem Computational intensity and inefficiency in training deep neural networks.
method Gradient Flow Matching (GFM) treats training as a dynamical system with learned vector fields.
result GFM achieves forecasting accuracy competitive with Transformer-based models and significantly outperforms classical baselines.

A novel Bayesian computation method using importance weighting improves numerical stability and performance.

problem Bayesian computation stability and performance issues.
method Nonparametric approach via feature means, importance weighting, and kernel Bayes' rule.
result Importance weighted kernel Bayes' rule yields superior numerical stability and performance.

Pion optimizes LLMs by preserving weight matrix singular values.

problem Training large language models (LLMs) with standard optimizers leads to unstable weight matrices.
method Pion uses orthogonal transformations to update weight matrices, preserving their singular values.
result Pion offers a stable alternative to standard optimizers for LLM pretraining and finetuning.

Current deep neural networks (DNNs) can easily overfit to biased training data with corrupted labels or class imbalance. Sample re-weighting strategy is commonly used to alleviate this issue by designing a weighting function mapping from training loss to sample weight, and then iterating between weight recalculating an…

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm uses PSO to optimize DNN training parameters in distributed systems.

problem Reducing synchronization frequency in DNN training leads to poor convergence.
method Integrates PSO into distributed training to automatically compute new parameters.
result Proposed algorithm outperforms synchronous methods in distributed DNN training.

Gradient-based methods introduce noise that penalizes models sensitive to weight perturbations.

problem Noise in gradient-based optimization methods.
method Analysis of Gradient Descent (GD) and Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) updating all parameters simultaneously.
result Noise introduced by simultaneous parameter updates penalizes models sensitive to weight perturbations.

In this paper we revisit the weighted likelihood bootstrap, a method that generates samples from an approximate Bayesian posterior of a parametric model. We show that the same method can be derived, without approximation, under a Bayesian nonparametric model with the parameter of interest defined as minimising an expec…

2017-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

To recover a sparse signal from an underdetermined system, we often solve a constrained L1-norm minimization problem. In many cases, the signal sparsity and the recovery performance can be further improved by replacing the L1 norm with a "weighted" L1 norm. Without any prior information about nonzero elements of the si…

2012-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals dynamics of neural networks with normalization, weight decay, and SGD.

problem Understanding the equilibrium condition in Spherical Motion Dynamics (SMD).
method Investigates SMD by exploring the cause of equilibrium condition, introducing assumptions, proposing angular update, and verifying theoretical results.
result Proves weight norm and angular update can converge at linear rate under given assumptions.

New algorithm provably converges to second-order stationary points in NMF.

problem Understanding convergence to local minima in NMF.
method Multiplicative weight update dynamics, concurrent updates, and simplex reduction.
result Provable convergence to second-order stationary points.

New sketches for weighted p\ell_p sampling without replacement improve accuracy and efficiency.

problem Efficiently sampling weighted data with high accuracy and minimal redundancy.
method Design of novel composable sketches for WOR p\ell_p sampling, based on CountSketch.
result First to provide WOR sampling for p>1p>1 and signed updates.

Traditionally, deep learning algorithms update the network weights whereas the network architecture is chosen manually, using a process of trial and error. In this work, we propose two novel approaches that automatically update the network structure while also learning its weights. The novelty of our approach lies in o…

2018-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗