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author Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:57:48 -0400
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21 \begin{document}
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23 \twocolumn[
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24 \aistatstitle{Deep Learners Benefit More from Out-of-Distribution Examples}
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25 \runningtitle{Deep Learners for Out-of-Distribution Examples}
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26 \runningauthor{Bengio et. al.}
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27 \aistatsauthor{Anonymous Authors\\
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29 \iffalse
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30 Yoshua Bengio \and
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31 Frédéric Bastien \and
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32 Arnaud Bergeron \and
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33 Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski \and
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34 Thomas Breuel \and
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35 Youssouf Chherawala \and
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36 Moustapha Cisse \and
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37 Myriam Côté \and
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38 Dumitru Erhan \and
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39 Jeremy Eustache \and
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40 Xavier Glorot \and
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41 Xavier Muller \and
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42 Sylvain Pannetier Lebeuf \and
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43 Razvan Pascanu \and
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44 Salah Rifai \and
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45 Francois Savard \and
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46 Guillaume Sicard
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47 %}
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48 \fi
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49 %\aistatsaddress{Dept. IRO, U. Montreal, P.O. Box 6128, Centre-Ville branch, H3C 3J7, Montreal (Qc), Canada}
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50 %\date{{\tt bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca}, Dept. IRO, U. Montreal, P.O. Box 6128, Centre-Ville branch, H3C 3J7, Montreal (Qc), Canada}
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51 %\jmlrheading{}{2010}{}{10/2010}{XX/2011}{Yoshua Bengio et al}
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52 %\editor{}
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54 %\makeanontitle
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55 %\maketitle
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57 %{\bf Running title: Deep Self-Taught Learning}
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60 \begin{abstract}
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61 Recent theoretical and empirical work in statistical machine learning has demonstrated the potential of learning algorithms for deep architectures, i.e., function classes obtained by composing multiple levels of representation. The hypothesis evaluated here is that intermediate levels of representation, because they can be shared across tasks and examples from different but related distributions, can yield even more benefits. Comparative experiments were performed on a large-scale handwritten character recognition setting with 62 classes (upper case, lower case, digits), using both a multi-task setting and perturbed examples in order to obtain out-of-distribution examples. The results agree with the hypothesis, and show that a deep learner did {\em beat previously published results and reached human-level performance}.
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62 \end{abstract}
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63 %\vspace*{-3mm}
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65 %\begin{keywords}
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66 %Deep learning, self-taught learning, out-of-distribution examples, handwritten character recognition, multi-task learning
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67 %\end{keywords}
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68 %\keywords{self-taught learning \and multi-task learning \and out-of-distribution examples \and deep learning \and handwriting recognition}
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72 \section{Introduction}
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73 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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75 {\bf Deep Learning} has emerged as a promising new area of research in
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76 statistical machine learning~\citep{Hinton06,ranzato-07-small,Bengio-nips-2006,VincentPLarochelleH2008-very-small,ranzato-08,TaylorHintonICML2009,Larochelle-jmlr-2009,Salakhutdinov+Hinton-2009,HonglakL2009,HonglakLNIPS2009,Jarrett-ICCV2009,Taylor-cvpr-2010}. See \citet{Bengio-2009} for a review.
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77 Learning algorithms for deep architectures are centered on the learning
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78 of useful representations of data, which are better suited to the task at hand,
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79 and are organized in a hierarchy with multiple levels.
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80 This is in part inspired by observations of the mammalian visual cortex,
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81 which consists of a chain of processing elements, each of which is associated with a
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82 different representation of the raw visual input. In fact,
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83 it was found recently that the features learnt in deep architectures resemble
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84 those observed in the first two of these stages (in areas V1 and V2
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85 of visual cortex) \citep{HonglakL2008}, and that they become more and
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86 more invariant to factors of variation (such as camera movement) in
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87 higher layers~\citep{Goodfellow2009}.
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88 It has been hypothesized that learning a hierarchy of features increases the
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89 ease and practicality of developing representations that are at once
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90 tailored to specific tasks, yet are able to borrow statistical strength
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91 from other related tasks (e.g., modeling different kinds of objects). Finally, learning the
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92 feature representation can lead to higher-level (more abstract, more
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93 general) features that are more robust to unanticipated sources of
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94 variance extant in real data.
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96 Whereas a deep architecture can in principle be more powerful than a
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97 shallow one in terms of representation, depth appears to render the
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98 training problem more difficult in terms of optimization and local minima.
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99 It is also only recently that successful algorithms were proposed to
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100 overcome some of these difficulties. All are based on unsupervised
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101 learning, often in an greedy layer-wise ``unsupervised pre-training''
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102 stage~\citep{Bengio-2009}.
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103 The principle is that each layer starting from
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104 the bottom is trained to represent its input (the output of the previous
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105 layer). After this
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106 unsupervised initialization, the stack of layers can be
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107 converted into a deep supervised feedforward neural network and fine-tuned by
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108 stochastic gradient descent.
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109 One of these layer initialization techniques,
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110 applied here, is the Denoising
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111 Auto-encoder~(DA)~\citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008-very-small} (see
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112 Figure~\ref{fig:da}), which performed similarly or
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113 better~\citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008-very-small} than previously
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114 proposed Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM)~\citep{Hinton06}
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115 in terms of unsupervised extraction
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116 of a hierarchy of features useful for classification. Each layer is trained
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117 to denoise its input, creating a layer of features that can be used as
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118 input for the next layer, forming a Stacked Denoising Auto-encoder (SDA).
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119 Note that training a Denoising Auto-encoder
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120 can actually been seen as training a particular RBM by an inductive
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121 principle different from maximum likelihood~\citep{Vincent-SM-2010},
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122 namely by Score Matching~\citep{Hyvarinen-2005,HyvarinenA2008}.
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124 Previous comparative experimental results with stacking of RBMs and DAs
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125 to build deep supervised predictors had shown that they could outperform
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126 shallow architectures in a variety of settings, especially
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127 when the data involves complex interactions between many factors of
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128 variation~\citep{LarochelleH2007,Bengio-2009}. Other experiments have suggested
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129 that the unsupervised layer-wise pre-training acted as a useful
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130 prior~\citep{Erhan+al-2010} that allows one to initialize a deep
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131 neural network in a relatively much smaller region of parameter space,
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132 corresponding to better generalization.
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134 To further the understanding of the reasons for the good performance
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135 observed with deep learners, we focus here on the following {\em hypothesis}:
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136 intermediate levels of representation, especially when there are
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137 more such levels, can be exploited to {\bf share
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138 statistical strength across different but related types of examples},
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139 such as examples coming from other tasks than the task of interest
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140 (the multi-task setting), or examples coming from an overlapping
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141 but different distribution (images with different kinds of perturbations
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142 and noises, here). This is consistent with the hypotheses discussed
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143 in~\citet{Bengio-2009} regarding the potential advantage
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144 of deep learning and the idea that more levels of representation can
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145 give rise to more abstract, more general features of the raw input.
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147 This hypothesis is related to a learning setting called
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148 {\bf self-taught learning}~\citep{RainaR2007}, which combines principles
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149 of semi-supervised and multi-task learning: the learner can exploit examples
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150 that are unlabeled and possibly come from a distribution different from the target
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151 distribution, e.g., from other classes than those of interest.
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152 It has already been shown that deep learners can clearly take advantage of
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153 unsupervised learning and unlabeled examples~\citep{Bengio-2009,WestonJ2008-small},
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154 but more needed to be done to explore the impact
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155 of {\em out-of-distribution} examples and of the {\em multi-task} setting
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156 (one exception is~\citep{CollobertR2008}, which shares and uses unsupervised
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157 pre-training only with the first layer). In particular the {\em relative
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158 advantage of deep learning} for these settings has not been evaluated.
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161 %
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162 The {\bf main claim} of this paper is that deep learners (with several levels of representation) can
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163 {\bf benefit more from out-of-distribution examples than shallow learners} (with a single
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164 level), both in the context of the multi-task setting and from
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165 perturbed examples. Because we are able to improve on state-of-the-art
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166 performance and reach human-level performance
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167 on a large-scale task, we consider that this paper is also a contribution
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168 to advance the application of machine learning to handwritten character recognition.
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169 More precisely, we ask and answer the following questions:
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173 Do the good results previously obtained with deep architectures on the
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174 MNIST digit images generalize to the setting of a similar but much larger and richer
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175 dataset, the NIST special database 19, with 62 classes and around 800k examples?
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176
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177 $\bullet$ %\item
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178 To what extent does the perturbation of input images (e.g. adding
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179 noise, affine transformations, background images) make the resulting
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180 classifiers better not only on similarly perturbed images but also on
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181 the {\em original clean examples}? We study this question in the
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182 context of the 62-class and 10-class tasks of the NIST special database 19.
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184 $\bullet$ %\item
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185 Do deep architectures {\em benefit {\bf more} from such out-of-distribution}
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186 examples, in particular do they benefit more from
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187 examples that are perturbed versions of the examples from the task of interest?
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188
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189 $\bullet$ %\item
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190 Similarly, does the feature learning step in deep learning algorithms benefit {\bf more}
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191 from training with moderately {\em different classes} (i.e. a multi-task learning scenario) than
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192 a corresponding shallow and purely supervised architecture?
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193 We train on 62 classes and test on 10 (digits) or 26 (upper case or lower case)
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194 to answer this question.
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195 %\end{enumerate}
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196
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197 Our experimental results provide positive evidence towards all of these questions,
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198 as well as {\bf classifiers that reach human-level performance on 62-class isolated character
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199 recognition and beat previously published results on the NIST dataset (special database 19)}.
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200 To achieve these results, we introduce in the next section a sophisticated system
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201 for stochastically transforming character images and then explain the methodology,
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202 which is based on training with or without these transformed images and testing on
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203 clean ones.
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204 Code for generating these transformations as well as for the deep learning
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205 algorithms are made available at {\tt http://anonymous.url.net}.%{\tt http://hg.assembla.com/ift6266}.
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206
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207 %\vspace*{-3mm}
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208 %\newpage
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209 \section{Perturbed and Transformed Character Images}
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210 \label{s:perturbations}
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211 %\vspace*{-2mm}
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212
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213 Figure~\ref{fig:transform} shows the different transformations we used to stochastically
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214 transform $32 \times 32$ source images (such as the one in Fig.\ref{fig:torig})
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215 in order to obtain data from a larger distribution which
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216 covers a domain substantially larger than the clean characters distribution from
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217 which we start.
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218 Although character transformations have been used before to
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219 improve character recognizers, this effort is on a large scale both
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220 in number of classes and in the complexity of the transformations, hence
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221 in the complexity of the learning task.
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222 The code for these transformations (mostly Python) is available at
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223 {\tt http://anonymous.url.net}. All the modules in the pipeline (Figure~\ref{fig:transform}) share
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224 a global control parameter ($0 \le complexity \le 1$) that allows one to modulate the
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225 amount of deformation or noise introduced.
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226 There are two main parts in the pipeline. The first one,
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227 from thickness to pinch, performs transformations. The second
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228 part, from blur to contrast, adds different kinds of noise.
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229 More details can be found in~\citep{ift6266-tr-anonymous}.
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230
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231 \begin{figure*}[ht]
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232 \centering
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233 \subfigure[Original]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Original.png}\label{fig:torig}}
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234 \subfigure[Thickness]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Thick_only.png}}
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235 \subfigure[Slant]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Slant_only.png}}
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236 \subfigure[Affine Transformation]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Affine_only.png}}
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237 \subfigure[Local Elastic Deformation]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Localelasticdistorsions_only.png}}
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238 \subfigure[Pinch]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Pinch_only.png}}
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239 %Noise
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240 \subfigure[Motion Blur]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Motionblur_only.png}}
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241 \subfigure[Occlusion]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/occlusion_only.png}}
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242 \subfigure[Gaussian Smoothing]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Bruitgauss_only.png}}
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243 \subfigure[Pixels Permutation]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Permutpixel_only.png}}
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244 \subfigure[Gaussian Noise]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Distorsiongauss_only.png}}
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245 \subfigure[Background Image Addition]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/background_other_only.png}}
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246 \subfigure[Salt \& Pepper]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Poivresel_only.png}}
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247 \subfigure[Scratches]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Rature_only.png}}
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248 \subfigure[Grey Level \& Contrast]{\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{images/Contrast_only.png}}
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249 \caption{Top left (a): example original image. Others (b-o): examples of the effect
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252 to apply.}
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253 \label{fig:transform}
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257 %\vspace*{-3mm}
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258 \section{Experimental Setup}
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259 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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261 Much previous work on deep learning had been performed on
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262 the MNIST digits task~\citep{Hinton06,ranzato-07-small,Bengio-nips-2006,Salakhutdinov+Hinton-2009},
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264 examples~\citep{Larochelle-jmlr-2009,VincentPLarochelleH2008-very-small}.
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265 The focus here is on much larger training sets, from 10 times to
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269 a {\em data source}: {\bf NIST} (NIST database 19), {\bf Fonts}, {\bf Captchas},
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271 Section~\ref{sec:sources} below. Once a character
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273 apply a pipeline of transformations and/or noise processes outlined in section \ref{s:perturbations}.
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275 To provide a baseline of error rate comparison we also estimate human performance
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276 on both the 62-class task and the 10-class digits task.
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277 We compare the best Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) against
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278 the best Stacked Denoising Auto-encoders (SDA), when
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279 both models' hyper-parameters are selected to minimize the validation set error.
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280 We also provide a comparison against a precise estimate
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282 service ({\tt http://mturk.com}).
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283 AMT users are paid small amounts
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284 of money to perform tasks for which human intelligence is required.
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285 Mechanical Turk has been used extensively in natural language processing and vision.
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286 %processing \citep{SnowEtAl2008} and vision
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287 %\citep{SorokinAndForsyth2008,whitehill09}.
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288 AMT users were presented
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290 and asked to label them.
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291 They were forced to choose a single character class (either among the
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293 80 subjects classified 2500 images per (dataset,task) pair.
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294 Different humans labelers sometimes provided a different label for the same
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295 example, and we were able to estimate the error variance due to this effect
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296 because each image was classified by 3 different persons.
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297 The average error of humans on the 62-class task NIST test set
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298 is 18.2\%, with a standard error of 0.1\%.
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299 We controlled noise in the labelling process by (1)
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302 complete (10 predictions) (3) discarding responses for which for which the
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303 time to predict was smaller than 3 seconds for NIST (the mean response time
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310 \subsection{Data Sources}
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311 \label{sec:sources}
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315 %\item
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316 {\bf NIST.}
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317 Our main source of characters is the NIST Special Database 19~\citep{Grother-1995},
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318 widely used for training and testing character
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319 recognition systems~\citep{Granger+al-2007,Cortes+al-2000,Oliveira+al-2002-short,Milgram+al-2005}.
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320 The dataset is composed of 814255 digits and characters (upper and lower cases), with hand checked classifications,
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321 extracted from handwritten sample forms of 3600 writers. The characters are labelled by one of the 62 classes
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322 corresponding to ``0''-``9'',``A''-``Z'' and ``a''-``z''. The dataset contains 8 parts (partitions) of varying complexity.
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323 The fourth partition (called $hsf_4$, 82,587 examples),
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324 experimentally recognized to be the most difficult one, is the one recommended
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325 by NIST as a testing set and is used in our work as well as some previous work~\citep{Granger+al-2007,Cortes+al-2000,Oliveira+al-2002-short,Milgram+al-2005}
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326 for that purpose. We randomly split the remainder (731,668 examples) into a training set and a validation set for
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327 model selection.
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328 The performances reported by previous work on that dataset mostly use only the digits.
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329 Here we use all the classes both in the training and testing phase. This is especially
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330 useful to estimate the effect of a multi-task setting.
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331 The distribution of the classes in the NIST training and test sets differs
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333 of letters in the test set (whereas in the training set they are distributed
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335 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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337 %\item
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338 {\bf Fonts.}
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339 In order to have a good variety of sources we downloaded an important number of free fonts from:
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340 {\tt http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/\textasciitilde luc/freefonts.html}.
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341 % TODO: pointless to anonymize, it's not pointing to our work
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342 Including an operating system's (Windows 7) fonts, there is a total of $9817$ different fonts that we can choose uniformly from.
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343 The chosen {\tt ttf} file is either used as input of the Captcha generator (see next item) or, by producing a corresponding image,
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347 %\item
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348 {\bf Captchas.}
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349 The Captcha data source is an adaptation of the \emph{pycaptcha} library (a Python-based captcha generator library) for
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350 generating characters of the same format as the NIST dataset. This software is based on
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351 a random character class generator and various kinds of transformations similar to those described in the previous sections.
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352 In order to increase the variability of the data generated, many different fonts are used for generating the characters.
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353 Transformations (slant, distortions, rotation, translation) are applied to each randomly generated character with a complexity
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354 depending on the value of the complexity parameter provided by the user of the data source.
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355 %Two levels of complexity are allowed and can be controlled via an easy to use facade class. %TODO: what's a facade class?
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358 %\item
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359 {\bf OCR data.}
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360 A large set (2 million) of scanned, OCRed and manually verified machine-printed
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362 additional source. This set is part of a larger corpus being collected by the Image Understanding
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363 Pattern Recognition Research group led by Thomas Breuel at University of Kaiserslautern
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364 ({\tt http://www.iupr.com}), and which will be publicly released.
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365 %TODO: let's hope that Thomas is not a reviewer! :) Seriously though, maybe we should anonymize this
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372 All data sets contain 32$\times$32 grey-level images (values in $[0,1]$) associated with a label
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373 from one of the 62 character classes.
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377 %\item
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378 {\bf NIST.} This is the raw NIST special database 19~\citep{Grother-1995}. It has
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380 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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382 %\item
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383 {\bf P07.} This dataset is obtained by taking raw characters from all four of the above sources
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384 and sending them through the transformation pipeline described in section \ref{s:perturbations}.
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385 For each new example to generate, a data source is selected with probability $10\%$ from the fonts,
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386 $25\%$ from the captchas, $25\%$ from the OCR data and $40\%$ from NIST. We apply all the transformations in the
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387 order given above, and for each of them we sample uniformly a \emph{complexity} in the range $[0,0.7]$.
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388 It has \{81,920,000 / 80,000 / 20,000\} \{training / validation / test\} examples
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389 obtained from the corresponding NIST sets plus other sources.
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390 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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392 %\item
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393 {\bf NISTP.} This one is equivalent to P07 (complexity parameter of $0.7$ with the same proportions of data sources)
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395 transformations from slant to pinch (see Fig.\ref{fig:transform}(b-f)).
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396 Therefore, the character is
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398 closer to the NIST dataset.
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399 It has \{81,920,000 / 80,000 / 20,000\} \{training / validation / test\} examples
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400 obtained from the corresponding NIST sets plus other sources.
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401 %\end{itemize}
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403 \begin{figure*}[ht]
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404 %\vspace*{-2mm}
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405 \centerline{\resizebox{0.8\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/denoising_autoencoder_small.pdf}}}
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406 %\vspace*{-2mm}
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407 \caption{Illustration of the computations and training criterion for the denoising
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408 auto-encoder used to pre-train each layer of the deep architecture. Input $x$ of
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409 the layer (i.e. raw input or output of previous layer)
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410 s corrupted into $\tilde{x}$ and encoded into code $y$ by the encoder $f_\theta(\cdot)$.
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411 The decoder $g_{\theta'}(\cdot)$ maps $y$ to reconstruction $z$, which
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412 is compared to the uncorrupted input $x$ through the loss function
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413 $L_H(x,z)$, whose expected value is approximately minimized during training
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414 by tuning $\theta$ and $\theta'$.}
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415 \label{fig:da}
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416 %\vspace*{-2mm}
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417 \end{figure*}
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420 \subsection{Models and their Hyper-parameters}
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421 %\vspace*{-2mm}
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423 The experiments are performed using MLPs (with a single
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424 hidden layer) and deep SDAs.
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425 \emph{Hyper-parameters are selected based on the {\bf NISTP} validation set error.}
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427 {\bf Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP).} Whereas previous work had compared
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428 deep architectures to both shallow MLPs and SVMs, we only compared to MLPs
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430 computationally challenging because of their quadratic scaling
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431 behavior). Preliminary experiments on training SVMs (libSVM) with subsets
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432 of the training set allowing the program to fit in memory yielded
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433 substantially worse results than those obtained with MLPs\footnote{RBF SVMs
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434 trained with a subset of NISTP or NIST, 100k examples, to fit in memory,
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435 yielded 64\% test error or worse; online linear SVMs trained on the whole
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436 of NIST or 800k from NISTP yielded no better than 42\% error; slightly
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437 better results were obtained by sparsifying the pixel intensities and
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438 projecting to a second-order polynomial (a very sparse vector), still
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440 better implementation allowing for training with more examples and
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441 a higher-order non-linear projection.} For training on nearly a hundred million examples (with the
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442 perturbed data), the MLPs and SDA are much more convenient than classifiers
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443 based on kernel methods. The MLP has a single hidden layer with $\tanh$
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444 activation functions, and softmax (normalized exponentials) on the output
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445 layer for estimating $P(class | image)$. The number of hidden units is
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446 taken in $\{300,500,800,1000,1500\}$. Training examples are presented in
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447 minibatches of size 20. A constant learning rate was chosen among $\{0.001,
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448 0.01, 0.025, 0.075, 0.1, 0.5\}$.
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449 %through preliminary experiments (measuring performance on a validation set),
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450 %and $0.1$ (which was found to work best) was then selected for optimizing on
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451 %the whole training sets.
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452 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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455 {\bf Stacked Denoising Auto-encoders (SDA).}
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456 Various auto-encoder variants and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs)
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460 basin of attraction of supervised gradient descent yielding better
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461 generalization~\citep{Erhan+al-2010}. This initial {\em unsupervised
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462 pre-training phase} uses all of the training images but not the training labels.
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463 Each layer is trained in turn to produce a new representation of its input
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464 (starting from the raw pixels).
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465 It is hypothesized that the
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466 advantage brought by this procedure stems from a better prior,
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467 on the one hand taking advantage of the link between the input
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468 distribution $P(x)$ and the conditional distribution of interest
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470 taking advantage of the expressive power and bias implicit in the
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471 deep architecture (whereby complex concepts are expressed as
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472 compositions of simpler ones through a deep hierarchy).
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475 Auto-encoder~\citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008-very-small} as the building block for
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477 explain (see Figure~\ref{fig:da}, as well as
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478 tutorial and code there: {\tt http://deeplearning.net/tutorial}),
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480 comparable or better than RBMs in series of experiments
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482 RBM trained by a Score Matching criterion~\cite{Vincent-SM-2010}.
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484 Auto-encoder is presented with a stochastically corrupted version
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487 the data. Here we use the random binary masking corruption
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498 separate learning rate for the unsupervised pre-training stage (selected
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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499 from the same above set). The fraction of inputs corrupted was selected
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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500 among $\{10\%, 20\%, 50\%\}$. Another hyper-parameter is the number
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parents: 623
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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502 based on previous work with
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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503 SDAs on MNIST~\citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008-very-small}.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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504 We also compared against 1 and against 2 hidden layers, in order
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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505 to disantangle the effect of depth from the effect of unsupervised
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parents: 623
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506 pre-training.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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507 The size of the hidden
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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508 layers was kept constant across hidden layers, and the best results
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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509 were obtained with the largest values that we could experiment
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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510 with given our patience, with 1000 hidden units.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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513
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514 \begin{figure*}[ht]
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515 %\vspace*{-2mm}
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516 \centerline{\resizebox{.99\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/error_rates_charts.pdf}}}
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517 %\vspace*{-3mm}
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518 \caption{SDAx are the {\bf deep} models. Error bars indicate a 95\% confidence interval. 0 indicates that the model was trained
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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519 on NIST, 1 on NISTP, and 2 on P07. Left: overall results
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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520 of all models, on NIST and NISTP test sets.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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521 Right: error rates on NIST test digits only, along with the previous results from
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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522 literature~\citep{Granger+al-2007,Cortes+al-2000,Oliveira+al-2002-short,Milgram+al-2005}
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523 respectively based on ART, nearest neighbors, MLPs, and SVMs.}
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524 \label{fig:error-rates-charts}
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525 %\vspace*{-2mm}
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526 \end{figure*}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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528
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529 \begin{figure*}[ht]
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530 \vspace*{-3mm}
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531 \centerline{\resizebox{.99\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/improvements_charts.pdf}}}
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532 \vspace*{-3mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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533 \caption{Relative improvement in error rate due to out-of-distribution examples.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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534 Left: Improvement (or loss, when negative)
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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535 induced by out-of-distribution examples (perturbed data).
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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536 Right: Improvement (or loss, when negative) induced by multi-task
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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537 learning (training on all classes and testing only on either digits,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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538 upper case, or lower-case). The deep learner (SDA) benefits more from
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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539 out-of-distribution examples, compared to the shallow MLP.}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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540 \label{fig:improvements-charts}
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541 \vspace*{-2mm}
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542 \end{figure*}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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543
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544 \vspace*{-2mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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545 \section{Experimental Results}
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546 \vspace*{-2mm}
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548 %%\vspace*{-1mm}
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549 %\subsection{SDA vs MLP vs Humans}
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550 %%\vspace*{-1mm}
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551 The models are either trained on NIST (MLP0 and SDA0),
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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552 NISTP (MLP1 and SDA1), or P07 (MLP2 and SDA2), and tested
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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553 on either NIST, NISTP or P07 (regardless of the data set used for training),
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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554 either on the 62-class task
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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555 or on the 10-digits task. Training time (including about half
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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556 for unsupervised pre-training, for DAs) on the larger
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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557 datasets is around one day on a GPU (GTX 285).
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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558 Figure~\ref{fig:error-rates-charts} summarizes the results obtained,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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559 comparing humans, the three MLPs (MLP0, MLP1, MLP2) and the three SDAs (SDA0, SDA1,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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560 SDA2), along with the previous results on the digits NIST special database
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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561 19 test set from the literature, respectively based on ARTMAP neural
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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562 networks ~\citep{Granger+al-2007}, fast nearest-neighbor search
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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563 ~\citep{Cortes+al-2000}, MLPs ~\citep{Oliveira+al-2002-short}, and SVMs
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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564 ~\citep{Milgram+al-2005}.% More detailed and complete numerical results
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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565 %(figures and tables, including standard errors on the error rates) can be
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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566 %found in Appendix.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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567 The deep learner not only outperformed the shallow ones and
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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568 previously published performance (in a statistically and qualitatively
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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569 significant way) but when trained with perturbed data
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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570 reaches human performance on both the 62-class task
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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571 and the 10-class (digits) task.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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572 17\% error (SDA1) or 18\% error (humans) may seem large but a large
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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573 majority of the errors from humans and from SDA1 are from out-of-context
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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574 confusions (e.g. a vertical bar can be a ``1'', an ``l'' or an ``L'', and a
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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575 ``c'' and a ``C'' are often indistinguishible).
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parents: 623
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576 Regarding shallower networks pre-trained with unsupervised denoising
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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577 auto-encders, we find that the NIST test error is 21\% with one hidden
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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578 layer and 20\% with two hidden layers (vs 17\% in the same conditions
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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579 with 3 hidden layers). Compare this with the 23\% error achieved
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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580 by the MLP, i.e. a single hidden layer and no unsupervised pre-training.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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581 As found in previous work~\cite{Erhan+al-2010,Larochelle-jmlr-2009},
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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582 these results show that both depth and
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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583 unsupervised pre-training need to be combined in order to achieve
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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584 the best results.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 623
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585
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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586
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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587 In addition, as shown in the left of
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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588 Figure~\ref{fig:improvements-charts}, the relative improvement in error
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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589 rate brought by out-of-distribution examples is greater for the deep
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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590 SDA, and these
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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591 differences with the shallow MLP are statistically and qualitatively
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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592 significant.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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593 The left side of the figure shows the improvement to the clean
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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594 NIST test set error brought by the use of out-of-distribution examples
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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595 (i.e. the perturbed examples examples from NISTP or P07),
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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596 over the models trained exclusively on NIST (respectively SDA0 and MLP0).
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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597 Relative percent change is measured by taking
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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598 $100 \% \times$ (original model's error / perturbed-data model's error - 1).
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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599 The right side of
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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600 Figure~\ref{fig:improvements-charts} shows the relative improvement
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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601 brought by the use of a multi-task setting, in which the same model is
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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602 trained for more classes than the target classes of interest (i.e. training
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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603 with all 62 classes when the target classes are respectively the digits,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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604 lower-case, or upper-case characters). Again, whereas the gain from the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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605 multi-task setting is marginal or negative for the MLP, it is substantial
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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606 for the SDA. Note that to simplify these multi-task experiments, only the original
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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607 NIST dataset is used. For example, the MLP-digits bar shows the relative
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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608 percent improvement in MLP error rate on the NIST digits test set
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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609 as $100\% \times$ (single-task
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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610 model's error / multi-task model's error - 1). The single-task model is
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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611 trained with only 10 outputs (one per digit), seeing only digit examples,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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612 whereas the multi-task model is trained with 62 outputs, with all 62
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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613 character classes as examples. Hence the hidden units are shared across
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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614 all tasks. For the multi-task model, the digit error rate is measured by
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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615 comparing the correct digit class with the output class associated with the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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616 maximum conditional probability among only the digit classes outputs. The
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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617 setting is similar for the other two target classes (lower case characters
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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618 and upper case characters). Note however that some types of perturbations
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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619 (NISTP) help more than others (P07) when testing on the clean images.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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621 %\subsection{Perturbed Training Data More Helpful for SDA}
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622 %%\vspace*{-1mm}
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623
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624 %%\vspace*{-1mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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625 %\subsection{Multi-Task Learning Effects}
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626 %%\vspace*{-1mm}
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627
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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628 \iffalse
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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629 As previously seen, the SDA is better able to benefit from the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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630 transformations applied to the data than the MLP. In this experiment we
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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631 define three tasks: recognizing digits (knowing that the input is a digit),
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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632 recognizing upper case characters (knowing that the input is one), and
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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633 recognizing lower case characters (knowing that the input is one). We
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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634 consider the digit classification task as the target task and we want to
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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635 evaluate whether training with the other tasks can help or hurt, and
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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636 whether the effect is different for MLPs versus SDAs. The goal is to find
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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637 out if deep learning can benefit more (or less) from multiple related tasks
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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638 (i.e. the multi-task setting) compared to a corresponding purely supervised
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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639 shallow learner.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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640
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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641 We use a single hidden layer MLP with 1000 hidden units, and a SDA
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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642 with 3 hidden layers (1000 hidden units per layer), pre-trained and
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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643 fine-tuned on NIST.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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644
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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645 Our results show that the MLP benefits marginally from the multi-task setting
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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646 in the case of digits (5\% relative improvement) but is actually hurt in the case
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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647 of characters (respectively 3\% and 4\% worse for lower and upper class characters).
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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648 On the other hand the SDA benefited from the multi-task setting, with relative
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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649 error rate improvements of 27\%, 15\% and 13\% respectively for digits,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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650 lower and upper case characters, as shown in Table~\ref{tab:multi-task}.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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651 \fi
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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652
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653
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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654 \vspace*{-2mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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655 \section{Conclusions and Discussion}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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656 \vspace*{-2mm}
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657
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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658 We have found that out-of-distribution examples (multi-task learning
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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659 and perturbed examples) are more beneficial
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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660 to a deep learner than to a traditional shallow and purely
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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661 supervised learner. More precisely,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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662 the answers are positive for all the questions asked in the introduction.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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663 %\begin{itemize}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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664
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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665 $\bullet$ %\item
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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666 {\bf Do the good results previously obtained with deep architectures on the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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667 MNIST digits generalize to a much larger and richer (but similar)
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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668 dataset, the NIST special database 19, with 62 classes and around 800k examples}?
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
669 Yes, the SDA {\em systematically outperformed the MLP and all the previously
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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diff changeset
670 published results on this dataset} (the ones that we are aware of), {\em in fact reaching human-level
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
671 performance} at around 17\% error on the 62-class task and 1.4\% on the digits,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
672 and beating previously published results on the same data.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
673
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
674 $\bullet$ %\item
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
675 {\bf To what extent do out-of-distribution examples help deep learners,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
676 and do they help them more than shallow supervised ones}?
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
677 We found that distorted training examples not only made the resulting
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
678 classifier better on similarly perturbed images but also on
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
679 the {\em original clean examples}, and more importantly and more novel,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
680 that deep architectures benefit more from such {\em out-of-distribution}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
681 examples. Shallow MLPs were helped by perturbed training examples when tested on perturbed input
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
682 images (65\% relative improvement on NISTP)
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
683 but only marginally helped (5\% relative improvement on all classes)
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
684 or even hurt (10\% relative loss on digits)
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
685 with respect to clean examples. On the other hand, the deep SDAs
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
686 were significantly boosted by these out-of-distribution examples.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
687 Similarly, whereas the improvement due to the multi-task setting was marginal or
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
688 negative for the MLP (from +5.6\% to -3.6\% relative change),
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
689 it was quite significant for the SDA (from +13\% to +27\% relative change),
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
690 which may be explained by the arguments below.
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
691 Since out-of-distribution data
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
692 (perturbed or from other related classes) is very common, this conclusion
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
693 is of practical importance.
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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694 %\end{itemize}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
695
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
696 In the original self-taught learning framework~\citep{RainaR2007}, the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
697 out-of-sample examples were used as a source of unsupervised data, and
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
698 experiments showed its positive effects in a \emph{limited labeled data}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
699 scenario. However, many of the results by \citet{RainaR2007} (who used a
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
700 shallow, sparse coding approach) suggest that the {\em relative gain of self-taught
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
701 learning vs ordinary supervised learning} diminishes as the number of labeled examples increases.
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
702 We note instead that, for deep
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
703 architectures, our experiments show that such a positive effect is accomplished
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
704 even in a scenario with a \emph{large number of labeled examples},
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
705 i.e., here, the relative gain of self-taught learning and
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
706 out-of-distribution examples is probably preserved
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
707 in the asymptotic regime. However, note that in our perturbation experiments
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
708 (but not in our multi-task experiments),
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
709 even the out-of-distribution examples are labeled, unlike in the
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
710 earlier self-taught learning experiments~\citep{RainaR2007}.
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
711
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
712 {\bf Why would deep learners benefit more from the self-taught learning
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
713 framework and out-of-distribution examples}?
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
714 The key idea is that the lower layers of the predictor compute a hierarchy
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
715 of features that can be shared across tasks or across variants of the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
716 input distribution. A theoretical analysis of generalization improvements
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
717 due to sharing of intermediate features across tasks already points
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
718 towards that explanation~\cite{baxter95a}.
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
719 Intermediate features that can be used in different
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
720 contexts can be estimated in a way that allows to share statistical
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
721 strength. Features extracted through many levels are more likely to
09b7dee216f4 added aistats2011_revised.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
722 be more abstract and more invariant to some of the factors of variation
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
723 in the underlying distribution (as the experiments in~\citet{Goodfellow2009} suggest),
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
724 increasing the likelihood that they would be useful for a larger array
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
725 of tasks and input conditions.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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726 Therefore, we hypothesize that both depth and unsupervised
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
727 pre-training play a part in explaining the advantages observed here, and future
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
728 experiments could attempt at teasing apart these factors.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
729 And why would deep learners benefit from the self-taught learning
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
730 scenarios even when the number of labeled examples is very large?
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
731 We hypothesize that this is related to the hypotheses studied
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
732 in~\citet{Erhan+al-2010}. In~\citet{Erhan+al-2010}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
733 it was found that online learning on a huge dataset did not make the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
734 advantage of the deep learning bias vanish, and a similar phenomenon
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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735 may be happening here. We hypothesize that unsupervised pre-training
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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736 of a deep hierarchy with out-of-distribution examples initializes the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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737 model in the basin of attraction of supervised gradient descent
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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738 that corresponds to better generalization. Furthermore, such good
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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739 basins of attraction are not discovered by pure supervised learning
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
740 (with or without out-of-distribution examples) from random initialization, and more labeled examples
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
741 does not allow the shallow or purely supervised models to discover
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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742 the kind of better basins associated
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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743 with deep learning and out-of-distribution examples.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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744
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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745 A Flash demo of the recognizer (where both the MLP and the SDA can be compared)
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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746 can be executed on-line at the anonymous site {\tt http://deep.host22.com}.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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747
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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748 \iffalse
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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749 \section*{Appendix I: Detailed Numerical Results}
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751 These tables correspond to Figures 2 and 3 and contain the raw error rates for each model and dataset considered.
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752 They also contain additional data such as test errors on P07 and standard errors.
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753
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754 \begin{table}[ht]
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755 \caption{Overall comparison of error rates ($\pm$ std.err.) on 62 character classes (10 digits +
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756 26 lower + 26 upper), except for last columns -- digits only, between deep architecture with pre-training
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757 (SDA=Stacked Denoising Autoencoder) and ordinary shallow architecture
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758 (MLP=Multi-Layer Perceptron). The models shown are all trained using perturbed data (NISTP or P07)
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759 and using a validation set to select hyper-parameters and other training choices.
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760 \{SDA,MLP\}0 are trained on NIST,
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761 \{SDA,MLP\}1 are trained on NISTP, and \{SDA,MLP\}2 are trained on P07.
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762 The human error rate on digits is a lower bound because it does not count digits that were
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763 recognized as letters. For comparison, the results found in the literature
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764 on NIST digits classification using the same test set are included.}
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765 \label{tab:sda-vs-mlp-vs-humans}
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766 \begin{center}
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767 \begin{tabular}{|l|r|r|r|r|} \hline
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768 & NIST test & NISTP test & P07 test & NIST test digits \\ \hline
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769 Humans& 18.2\% $\pm$.1\% & 39.4\%$\pm$.1\% & 46.9\%$\pm$.1\% & $1.4\%$ \\ \hline
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770 SDA0 & 23.7\% $\pm$.14\% & 65.2\%$\pm$.34\% & 97.45\%$\pm$.06\% & 2.7\% $\pm$.14\%\\ \hline
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771 SDA1 & 17.1\% $\pm$.13\% & 29.7\%$\pm$.3\% & 29.7\%$\pm$.3\% & 1.4\% $\pm$.1\%\\ \hline
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772 SDA2 & 18.7\% $\pm$.13\% & 33.6\%$\pm$.3\% & 39.9\%$\pm$.17\% & 1.7\% $\pm$.1\%\\ \hline
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773 MLP0 & 24.2\% $\pm$.15\% & 68.8\%$\pm$.33\% & 78.70\%$\pm$.14\% & 3.45\% $\pm$.15\% \\ \hline
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774 MLP1 & 23.0\% $\pm$.15\% & 41.8\%$\pm$.35\% & 90.4\%$\pm$.1\% & 3.85\% $\pm$.16\% \\ \hline
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775 MLP2 & 24.3\% $\pm$.15\% & 46.0\%$\pm$.35\% & 54.7\%$\pm$.17\% & 4.85\% $\pm$.18\% \\ \hline
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776 \citep{Granger+al-2007} & & & & 4.95\% $\pm$.18\% \\ \hline
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777 \citep{Cortes+al-2000} & & & & 3.71\% $\pm$.16\% \\ \hline
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778 \citep{Oliveira+al-2002} & & & & 2.4\% $\pm$.13\% \\ \hline
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779 \citep{Milgram+al-2005} & & & & 2.1\% $\pm$.12\% \\ \hline
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780 \end{tabular}
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781 \end{center}
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782 \end{table}
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784 \begin{table}[ht]
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785 \caption{Relative change in error rates due to the use of perturbed training data,
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786 either using NISTP, for the MLP1/SDA1 models, or using P07, for the MLP2/SDA2 models.
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787 A positive value indicates that training on the perturbed data helped for the
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788 given test set (the first 3 columns on the 62-class tasks and the last one is
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789 on the clean 10-class digits). Clearly, the deep learning models did benefit more
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790 from perturbed training data, even when testing on clean data, whereas the MLP
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791 trained on perturbed data performed worse on the clean digits and about the same
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792 on the clean characters. }
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793 \label{tab:perturbation-effect}
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794 \begin{center}
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795 \begin{tabular}{|l|r|r|r|r|} \hline
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796 & NIST test & NISTP test & P07 test & NIST test digits \\ \hline
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797 SDA0/SDA1-1 & 38\% & 84\% & 228\% & 93\% \\ \hline
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798 SDA0/SDA2-1 & 27\% & 94\% & 144\% & 59\% \\ \hline
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799 MLP0/MLP1-1 & 5.2\% & 65\% & -13\% & -10\% \\ \hline
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800 MLP0/MLP2-1 & -0.4\% & 49\% & 44\% & -29\% \\ \hline
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801 \end{tabular}
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802 \end{center}
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803 \end{table}
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805 \begin{table}[ht]
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806 \caption{Test error rates and relative change in error rates due to the use of
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807 a multi-task setting, i.e., training on each task in isolation vs training
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808 for all three tasks together, for MLPs vs SDAs. The SDA benefits much
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809 more from the multi-task setting. All experiments on only on the
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810 unperturbed NIST data, using validation error for model selection.
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811 Relative improvement is 1 - single-task error / multi-task error.}
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812 \label{tab:multi-task}
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813 \begin{center}
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814 \begin{tabular}{|l|r|r|r|} \hline
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815 & single-task & multi-task & relative \\
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816 & setting & setting & improvement \\ \hline
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817 MLP-digits & 3.77\% & 3.99\% & 5.6\% \\ \hline
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818 MLP-lower & 17.4\% & 16.8\% & -4.1\% \\ \hline
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819 MLP-upper & 7.84\% & 7.54\% & -3.6\% \\ \hline
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820 SDA-digits & 2.6\% & 3.56\% & 27\% \\ \hline
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821 SDA-lower & 12.3\% & 14.4\% & 15\% \\ \hline
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822 SDA-upper & 5.93\% & 6.78\% & 13\% \\ \hline
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824 \end{center}
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825 \end{table}
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