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This paper aims to compare different regularization strategies to address a common phenomenon, severe overfitting, in embedding-based neural networks for NLP. We chose two widely studied neural models and tasks as our testbed. We tried…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Hao Peng , Lili Mou , Ge Li , Yunchuan Chen , Yangyang Lu , Zhi Jin

Over-parameterized neural network models often lead to significant performance discrepancies between training and test sets, a phenomenon known as overfitting. To address this, researchers have proposed numerous regularization techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 RuiZhe Jiang , Haotian Lei

Transformer architecture achieves great success in abundant natural language processing tasks. The over-parameterization of the Transformer model has motivated plenty of works to alleviate its overfitting for superior performances. With…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zhen Wu , Lijun Wu , Qi Meng , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Xinyu Dai , Tie-Yan Liu

Proper regularization is critical for speeding up training, improving generalization performance, and learning compact models that are cost efficient. We propose and analyze regularized gradient descent algorithms for learning shallow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Samet Oymak

Dropout, a stochastic regularisation technique for training of neural networks, has recently been reinterpreted as a specific type of approximate inference algorithm for Bayesian neural networks. The main contribution of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-06 Jiri Hron , Alexander G. de G. Matthews , Zoubin Ghahramani

Background. A main theoretical puzzle is why over-parameterized Neural Networks (NNs) generalize well when trained to zero loss (i.e., so they interpolate the data). Usually, the NN is trained with Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) or one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gon Buzaglo , Itamar Harel , Mor Shpigel Nacson , Alon Brutzkus , Nathan Srebro , Daniel Soudry

Deep learning is a machine learning methodology using multi-layer neural network. A multi-layer neural network can be regarded as a chain of complete bipartite graphs. The nodes of the first partita is the input layer and the last is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Shoko Chisaki , Ryoh Fuji-Hara , Nobuko Miyamoto

Ensemble methods that average over a collection of independent predictors that are each limited to a subsampling of both the examples and features of the training data command a significant presence in machine learning, such as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-26 Daniel LeJeune , Hamid Javadi , Richard G. Baraniuk

Estimating epistemic uncertainty of models used in low-latency applications and Out-Of-Distribution samples detection is a challenge due to the computationally demanding nature of uncertainty estimation techniques. Estimating model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Akshatha Kamath , Dwaraknath Gnaneshwar , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Uncertainty quantification of machine learning and deep learning methods plays an important role in enhancing trust to the obtained result. In recent years, a numerous number of uncertainty quantification methods have been introduced. Monte…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Afshar Shamsi , Hamzeh Asgharnezhad , AmirReza Tajally , Saeid Nahavandi , Henry Leung

Despite of its importance for safe machine learning, uncertainty quantification for neural networks is far from being solved. State-of-the-art approaches to estimate neural uncertainties are often hybrid, combining parametric models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Joachim Sicking , Maram Akila , Maximilian Pintz , Tim Wirtz , Asja Fischer , Stefan Wrobel

Deep convolutional neural networks have shown remarkable performance on various computer vision tasks, and yet, they are susceptible to picking up spurious correlations from the training signal. So called `shortcuts' can occur during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Mobarakol Islam , Ben Glocker

One major challenge in training Deep Neural Networks is preventing overfitting. Many techniques such as data augmentation and novel regularizers such as Dropout have been proposed to prevent overfitting without requiring a massive amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Michael Cogswell , Faruk Ahmed , Ross Girshick , Larry Zitnick , Dhruv Batra

Knowing the uncertainty associated with the output of a deep neural network is of paramount importance in making trustworthy decisions, particularly in high-stakes fields like medical diagnosis and autonomous systems. Monte Carlo Dropout…

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In the last decade, exponential data growth supplied the machine learning-based algorithms' capacity and enabled their usage in daily life activities. Additionally, such an improvement is partially explained due to the advent of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Claudio Filipi Goncalves do Santos , Mateus Roder , Leandro A. Passos , João P. Papa

We introduceDropDim, a structured dropout method designed for regularizing the self-attention mechanism, which is a key component of the transformer. In contrast to the general dropout method, which randomly drops neurons, DropDim drops…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hao Zhang , Dan Qu , Keji Shao , Xukui Yang

Bias originates from both data and algorithmic design, often exacerbated by traditional fairness methods that fail to address the subtle impacts of protected attributes. This study introduces an approach to mitigate bias in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Khadija Zanna , Akane Sano

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) stand at the forefront of many recent developments in deep learning. Yet a major difficulty with these models is their tendency to overfit, with dropout shown to fail when applied to recurrent layers. Recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-06 Yarin Gal , Zoubin Ghahramani

In statistics and machine learning, approximation of an intractable integration is often achieved by using the unbiased Monte Carlo estimator, but the variances of the estimation are generally high in many applications. Control variates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-16 Ruosi Wan , Mingjun Zhong , Haoyi Xiong , Zhanxing Zhu

Object detectors are typically learned on fully-annotated training data with fixed predefined categories. However, categories are often required to be increased progressively. Usually, only the original training set annotated with old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Bowen Zhao , Chen Chen , Xi Xiao , Shutao Xia