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Criticality & Deep Learning II: Momentum Renormalisation Group

Statistical Mechanics 2017-06-01 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Guided by critical systems found in nature we develop a novel mechanism consisting of inhomogeneous polynomial regularisation via which we can induce scale invariance in deep learning systems. Technically, we map our deep learning (DL) setup to a genuine field theory, on which we act with the Renormalisation Group (RG) in momentum space and produce the flow equations of the couplings; those are translated to constraints and consequently interpreted as "critical regularisation" conditions in the optimiser; the resulting equations hence prove to be sufficient conditions for - and serve as an elegant and simple mechanism to induce scale invariance in any deep learning setup.

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@article{arxiv.1705.11023,
  title  = {Criticality & Deep Learning II: Momentum Renormalisation Group},
  author = {Dan Oprisa and Peter Toth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.11023},
  year   = {2017}
}
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