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An Infinite Restricted Boltzmann Machine (arxiv.org)
1 point by sungeuns on Jun 15, 2015 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A pattern-learning network is rebuilt so its hidden units sit in a fixed order and its scoring rule works with infinitely many, letting it add units as it trains. It performed about as well as the usual version without tuning a hidden layer size.

Abstract

We present a mathematical construction for the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) that doesn't require specifying the number of hidden units. In fact, the hidden layer size is adaptive and can grow during training. This is obtained by first extending the RBM to be sensitive to the ordering of its hidden units. Then, thanks to a carefully chosen definition of the energy function, we show that the limit of infinitely many hidden units is well defined. As with RBM, approximate maximum likelihood training can be performed, resulting in an algorithm that naturally and adaptively adds trained hidden units during learning. We empirically study the behaviour of this infinite RBM, showing that its performance is competitive to that of the RBM, while not requiring the tuning of a hidden layer size.

Marc-Alexandre Côté, Hugo Larochelle
arXiv:1502.02476 · cs.LG · submitted Feb 9, 2015 · updated Mar 18, 2016
abstract · pdf · html · 25 pages, 8 figures

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