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Mode Normalization

Machine Learning 2018-10-15 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Normalization methods are a central building block in the deep learning toolbox. They accelerate and stabilize training, while decreasing the dependence on manually tuned learning rate schedules. When learning from multi-modal distributions, the effectiveness of batch normalization (BN), arguably the most prominent normalization method, is reduced. As a remedy, we propose a more flexible approach: by extending the normalization to more than a single mean and variance, we detect modes of data on-the-fly, jointly normalizing samples that share common features. We demonstrate that our method outperforms BN and other widely used normalization techniques in several experiments, including single and multi-task datasets.

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@article{arxiv.1810.05466,
  title  = {Mode Normalization},
  author = {Lucas Deecke and Iain Murray and Hakan Bilen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05466},
  year   = {2018}
}