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Agents trained with deep reinforcement learning algorithms are capable of performing highly complex tasks including locomotion in continuous environments. We investigate transferring the learning acquired in one task to a set of previously…
Many failures in deep continual and reinforcement learning are associated with increasing magnitudes of the weights, making them hard to change and potentially causing overfitting. While many methods address these learning failures, they…
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In this paper, we introduce a new regularization technique for transfer learning. The aim of the proposed approach is to capture statistical relationships among convolution filters learned from a well-trained network and transfer this…
We quantify the generalization of a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained to identify cars. First, we perform a series of experiments to train the network using one image dataset - either synthetic or from a camera - and then test on a…
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Neural networks are promising tools for high-throughput and accurate transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis of nanomaterials, but are known to generalize poorly on data that is "out-of-distribution" from their training data. Given…
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We develop a new method for regularising neural networks. We learn a probability distribution over the activations of all layers of the model and then insert imputed values into the network during training. We obtain a posterior for an…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in many visual tasks but remain susceptible to adversarial attacks-imperceptible perturbations that degrade performance. Prior research reveals that brain-inspired regularizers, derived from neural…
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Modern machine learning models are becoming increasingly expensive to train for real-world image and text classification tasks, where massive web-scale data is collected in a streaming fashion. To reduce the training cost, online batch…