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Convexification of Neural Graph

Machine Learning 2018-01-16 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

Traditionally, most complex intelligence architectures are extremely non-convex, which could not be well performed by convex optimization. However, this paper decomposes complex structures into three types of nodes: operators, algorithms and functions. Iteratively, propagating from node to node along edge, we prove that "regarding the tree-structured neural graph, it is nearly convex in each variable, when the other variables are fixed." In fact, the non-convex properties stem from circles and functions, which could be transformed to be convex with our proposed \textit{\textbf{scale mechanism}}. Experimentally, we justify our theoretical analysis by two practical applications.

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@article{arxiv.1801.02901,
  title  = {Convexification of Neural Graph},
  author = {Han Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02901},
  year   = {2018}
}
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