Botev, A;
Ritter, J;
Barber, D;
(2017)
Practical Gauss-Newton Optimisation for Deep Learning.
In: Precup, D and Teh, YW, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning.
(pp. pp. 557-565).
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: Sydney, Australia.
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Abstract
We present an efficient block-diagonal approximation to the Gauss-Newton matrix for feedforward neural networks. Our resulting algorithm is competitive against state-of-the-art first-order optimisation methods, with sometimes significant improvement in optimisation performance. Unlike first-order methods, for which hyperparameter tuning of the optimisation parameters is often a laborious process, our approach can provide good performance even when used with default settings. A side result of our work is that for piecewise linear transfer functions, the network objective function can have no differentiable local maxima, which may partially explain why such transfer functions facilitate effective optimisation.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Practical Gauss-Newton Optimisation for Deep Learning |
| Event: | 34th International Conference on Machine Learning |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/botev17a.html |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10038402 |
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