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The principle of maximum entropy is a broadly applicable technique for computing a distribution with the least amount of information possible constrained to match empirical data, for instance, feature expectations. We seek to generalize…
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One of the central challenges in modern machine learning is understanding how neural networks generalize knowledge learned from training data to unseen test data. While numerous empirical techniques have been proposed to improve…
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We propose a deep supervised learning algorithm based on low-discrepancy sequences as the training set. By a combination of theoretical arguments and extensive numerical experiments we demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly…
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