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Training a Subsampling Mechanism in Expectation

Machine Learning 2017-04-11 v3

Abstract

We describe a mechanism for subsampling sequences and show how to compute its expected output so that it can be trained with standard backpropagation. We test this approach on a simple toy problem and discuss its shortcomings.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1702.06914,
  title  = {Training a Subsampling Mechanism in Expectation},
  author = {Colin Raffel and Dieterich Lawson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.06914},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Camera-ready version. Includes additional figures in an appendix

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