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6 claims from 4 papers

1. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Approximation by superpositions of a sigmoidal function

   Cybenko · Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems · 1989

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   1. UncheckedSums of a fixed one-variable function applied to linear combinations of inputs can approximate any continuous function on the unit hypercube arbitrarily closely.“In this paper we demonstrate that finite linear combinations of compositions of a fixed, univariate function and a set of affine functionals can uniformly approximate any continuous function ofn real variables with support in the unit hypercube; only mild conditions are imposed on the univariate fu…”
   2. UncheckedAny decision region can be approximated as closely as wanted by a feedforward network with one hidden layer and any continuous sigmoidal activation.“In particular, we show that arbitrary decision regions can be arbitrarily well approximated by continuous feedforward neural networks with only a single internal, hidden layer and any continuous sigmoidal nonlinearity.”

2. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors

   Hinton, Srivastava, Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Salakhutdinov · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2012

   Randomly omitting half the feature detectors on each training case reduces overfitting in large neural networks trained on small datasets, and the paper reports improved benchmark results.

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   1. UncheckedRandomly omitting units during training, called dropout, gave big gains on many benchmarks and set new records in speech and object recognition.“Random "dropout" gives big improvements on many benchmark tasks and sets new records for speech and object recognition.”

3. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?

   Ba and Caruana · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

   The extended abstract reports that shallow networks trained to mimic deep models can match their accuracy on TIMIT phoneme recognition, sometimes with similar parameter counts.

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   1. UncheckedShallow feed-forward networks can learn functions previously learned by deep nets and reach accuracies once thought to need deep models.“In this extended abstract, we show that shallow feed-forward networks can learn the complex functions previously learned by deep nets and achieve accuracies previously only achievable with deep models.”
   2. UncheckedIn some cases, shallow neural networks can learn the functions of deep models using a similar total number of parameters to the original deep model.“Moreover, in some cases the shallow neural nets can learn these deep functions using a total number of parameters similar to the original deep model.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Symmetries and Many-Body Excitations with Neural-Network Quantum States

   Choo, Carleo, Regnault and Neupert · Physical Review Letters · 2018

   The paper extends neural-network wave-function methods from ground states to excited states, using symmetry targeting and an algorithm for low-lying states, tested on two one-dimensional models.

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   1. UncheckedIn this study, deep neural networks typically gave better results than shallow ones when representing high-energy quantum states.“Interestingly, we also find that deep networks typically outperform shallow architectures for high-energy states.”