cs.LG 1412.7149

Deep Fried Convnets

Deep Fried ConvNets replace fully connected layers with adaptive Fastfood transforms, reducing parameters by over 90% without accuracy loss.

Zichao Yang, Marcin Moczulski, Misha Denil et al.

2014-12-23 57
cs.LG 1412.6980

Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization

Adam combines first and second moment estimates for adaptive learning rates, accelerating large-scale stochastic optimization.

Diederik P. Kingma, Jimmy Ba

2014-12-22 46
cs.LG 1412.6651

Deep learning with Elastic Averaging SGD

Elastic Averaging SGD (EASGD) leverages elastic force to enable efficient distributed deep learning, reducing communication overhead while enhancing exploration, leading to faster convergence and better accuracy.

Sixin Zhang, Anna Choromanska, Yann LeCun

2014-12-20 646 citations 39
cs.LG 1412.0233

The Loss Surfaces of Multilayer Networks

A spherical spin-glass mapping explains why SGD in large networks reaches low-energy, high-quality local minima.

Anna Choromanska, Mikael Henaff, Michael Mathieu et al.

2014-11-30 36
cs.AI 1411.5899

Falling Rule Lists

Falling Rule Lists is a classification model using ordered if-then rules with monotonically decreasing success probability.

Fulton Wang, Cynthia Rudin

2014-11-21 41
cs.CV 1411.4555

Show and Tell: A Neural Image Caption Generator

Proposes a deep neural image captioning model combining CNN and LSTM, achieving BLEU-4 of 27.7, outperforming previous methods.

Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio et al.

2014-11-18 81
cs.CV 1411.4038

Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation

Proposes Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) for pixel-level semantic segmentation, achieving 62.2% mean IU, surpassing previous SOTA with end-to-end training.

Jonathan Long, Evan Shelhamer, Trevor Darrell

2014-11-15 61
stat.CO 1411.0030

A* Sampling

A* sampling algorithm leverages Gumbel processes and A* search to efficiently draw exact samples from continuous distributions, outperforming adaptive rejection sampling.

Chris J. Maddison, Daniel Tarlow, Tom Minka

2014-11-01 51
cs.NE 1410.5401

Neural Turing Machines

Neural Turing Machines extend neural networks with external memory, enabling inference of simple algorithms like copying and sorting.

Alex Graves, Greg Wayne, Ivo Danihelka

2014-10-21 10