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11 claims from 9 papers

1. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Deep learning

   LeCun, Bengio and Hinton · Nature · 2015

   This review describes deep learning, its use of backpropagation, and its reported improvements in speech, image and other tasks, via convolutional and recurrent networks.

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   1. UncheckedDeep learning lets models built from many processing layers learn representations of data at several levels of abstraction.“Deep learning allows computational models that are composed of multiple processing layers to learn representations of data with multiple levels of abstraction.”

2. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Dropout: a simple way to prevent neural networks from overfitting

   Srivastava, Hinton, Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Salakhutdinov · 2014

   The paper presents dropout, which randomly drops units during training, and reports that it improves neural networks on vision, speech, text classification and computational biology tasks.

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   1. UncheckedUsing dropout at test time via a single network with smaller weights is said to cut overfitting a lot and beat other regularization methods.“This significantly reduces overfitting and gives major improvements over other regularization methods.”

3. 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.”

4. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Optimal Brain Damage

   LeCun, Denker and Solla · 1989

   The authors use information-theoretic ideas and second-derivative information to derive schemes for shrinking neural networks, and report experiments on a real-world application.

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   1. UncheckedRemoving unimportant weights from a neural network is expected to improve generalisation, cut the training examples needed, and speed up learning or classification.“By removing unimportant weights from a network, several improvements can be expected: better generalization, fewer training examples required, and improved speed of learning and/or classification.”

5. 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.”

6. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Spectral bias and task-model alignment explain generalization in kernel regression and infinitely wide neural networks

   Canatar, Bordelon and Pehlevan · Nature Communications · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“We elucidate an inductive bias of kernel regression to explain data with "simple functions", which are identified by solving a kernel eigenfunction problem on the data distribution.”
   2. Unchecked“We show that more data may impair generalization when noisy or not expressible by the kernel, leading to non-monotonic learning curves with possibly many peaks.”

7. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Origin of the computational hardness for learning with binary synapses

   Huang and Kabashima · Physical Review E · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“The point-like clusters far apart from each other in the weight space explain the previously observed glassy behavior of stochastic local search heuristics.”

8. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Governance Architecture for Neural Network Superposition: A Structural Solution to Hallucination via Routing and Interference Filtering

   Nelson, Hume, Olsson et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We demonstrate the existence of a phase change, a surprising connection to the geometry of uniform polytopes, and evidence of a link to adversarial examples.”

9. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   The Early Phase of Neural Network Training

   Frankle, Schwab and Morcos · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“We find that, within this framework, deep networks are not robust to reinitializing with random weights while maintaining signs, and that weight distributions are highly non-independent even after only a few hundred iterations.”