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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Origin of the computational hardness for learning with binary synapses

   Huang and Kabashima · Physical Review E · 2014

   The authors analytically studied the weight space of a binary perceptron and found its solutions are isolated rather than clustered, which they link to the difficulty of finding them.

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   1. UncheckedIn the binary perceptron, solutions sit as isolated points far apart, which the paper says explains why local search algorithms behave glassily.“The point-like clusters far apart from each other in the weight space explain the previously observed glassy behavior of stochastic local search heuristics.”

2. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Statistical mechanics of unsupervised feature learning in a restricted Boltzmann machine with binary synapses

   Huang · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“Our analysis confirms an entropy crisis preceding the non-convergence of the message passing equation, suggesting a discontinuous phase transition as a key characteristic of the restricted Boltzmann machine.”
   2. Unchecked“Continuous phase transition is also confirmed depending on the embedded feature strength in the data.”
   3. Unchecked“The mean-field result under the replica symmetric assumption agrees with that obtained by running message passing algorithms on single instances of finite sizes.”