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20 Recent theoretical and empirical work in statistical machine learning has |
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22 architectures, i.e., function classes obtained by composing multiple |
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25 to deep learners, but mostly to show the advantage of unlabeled |
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26 examples. Here we explore the advantage brought by {\em out-of-distribution |
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27 examples} and show that {\em deep learners benefit more from them than a |
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28 corresponding shallow learner}, in the area |
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29 of handwritten character recognition. In fact, we show that they reach |
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30 human-level performance on both handwritten digit classification and |
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31 62-class handwritten character recognition. For this purpose we |
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32 developed a powerful generator of stochastic variations and noise |
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34 also slant, local elastic deformations, changes in thickness, background |
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36 spatially correlated noise. The out-of-distribution examples are |
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37 obtained by training with these highly distorted images or |
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42 \section{Introduction} |
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45 Deep Learning has emerged as a promising new area of research in |
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48 of useful representations of data, which are better suited to the task at hand. |
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49 This is in great part inspired by observations of the mammalian visual cortex, |
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53 those observed in the first two of these stages (in areas V1 and V2 |
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| 467 | 124 This section describes the different transformations we used to stochastically |
| 125 transform source images in order to obtain data. More details can | |
| 469 | 126 be found in this technical report~\citep{ift6266-tr-anonymous}. |
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| 467 | 132 There are two main parts in the pipeline. The first one, |
| 133 from slant to pinch below, performs transformations. The second | |
| 134 part, from blur to contrast, adds different kinds of noise. | |
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| 501 | 136 \begin{figure}[h] |
| 137 \resizebox{.99\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/transfo.png}}\\ | |
| 138 \caption{Illustration of each transformation applied alone to the same image | |
| 139 of an upper-case h (top left). First row (from left to right) : original image, slant, | |
| 140 thickness, affine transformation (translation, rotation, shear), | |
| 141 local elastic deformation; second row (from left to right) : | |
| 142 pinch, motion blur, occlusion, pixel permutation, Gaussian noise; third row (from left to right) : | |
| 143 background image, salt and pepper noise, spatially Gaussian noise, scratches, | |
| 144 grey level and contrast changes.} | |
| 145 \label{fig:transfo} | |
| 146 \end{figure} | |
| 147 | |
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| 467 | 153 We mimic slant by shifting each row of the image |
| 495 | 154 proportionally to its height: $shift = round(slant \times height)$. |
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| 467 | 156 and its value is randomly sampled according to the complexity level: |
| 157 e $slant \sim U[0,complexity]$, so the | |
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| 467 | 159 $round(complexity \times 32)$.\\ |
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| 495 | 161 Morphological operators of dilation and erosion~\citep{Haralick87,Serra82} |
| 467 | 162 are applied. The neighborhood of each pixel is multiplied |
| 163 element-wise with a {\em structuring element} matrix. | |
| 164 The pixel value is replaced by the maximum or the minimum of the resulting | |
| 165 matrix, respectively for dilation or erosion. Ten different structural elements with | |
| 166 increasing dimensions (largest is $5\times5$) were used. For each image, | |
| 167 randomly sample the operator type (dilation or erosion) with equal probability and one structural | |
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| 467 | 170 for erosion. A neutral element is always present in the set, and if it is |
| 171 chosen no transformation is applied. Erosion allows only the six | |
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| 467 | 173 be completely erased.\\ |
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174 {\bf Affine Transformations.} |
| 467 | 175 A $2 \times 3$ affine transform matrix (with |
| 176 6 parameters $(a,b,c,d,e,f)$) is sampled according to the $complexity$ level. | |
| 177 Each pixel $(x,y)$ of the output image takes the value of the pixel | |
| 178 nearest to $(ax+by+c,dx+ey+f)$ in the input image. This | |
| 179 produces scaling, translation, rotation and shearing. | |
| 180 The marginal distributions of $(a,b,c,d,e,f)$ have been tuned by hand to | |
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| 467 | 182 variability of the transformation: $a$ and $d$ $\sim U[1-3 \times |
| 183 complexity,1+3 \times complexity]$, $b$ and $e$ $\sim[-3 \times complexity,3 | |
| 184 \times complexity]$ and $c$ and $f$ $\sim U[-4 \times complexity, 4 \times | |
| 185 complexity]$.\\ | |
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| 467 | 188 which provides more details. |
| 189 Two "displacements" fields are generated and applied, for horizontal | |
| 190 and vertical displacements of pixels. | |
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| 467 | 192 chosen from a uniform distribution. Then all the pixels, in both fields, are |
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| 467 | 194 displacements (larger $\alpha$ translates into larger wiggles). |
| 195 Each field is convoluted with a Gaussian 2D kernel of | |
| 196 standard deviation $\sigma$. Visually, this results in a blur. | |
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| 467 | 198 \sqrt[3]{complexity}$.\\ |
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199 {\bf Pinch.} |
| 467 | 200 This GIMP filter is named "Whirl and |
| 201 pinch", but whirl was set to 0. A pinch is ``similar to projecting the image onto an elastic | |
| 469 | 202 surface and pressing or pulling on the center of the surface''~\citep{GIMP-manual}. |
| 467 | 203 For a square input image, think of drawing a circle of |
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| 495 | 207 that source pixel is found on the line that goes through $C$ and $P$, but |
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221 {\bf Motion Blur.} |
| 467 | 222 This GIMP filter is a ``linear motion blur'' in GIMP |
| 223 terminology, with two parameters, $length$ and $angle$. The value of | |
| 224 a pixel in the final image is the approximately mean value of the $length$ first pixels | |
| 225 found by moving in the $angle$ direction. | |
| 226 Here $angle \sim U[0,360]$ degrees, and $length \sim {\rm Normal}(0,(3 \times complexity)^2)$.\\ | |
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227 {\bf Occlusion.} |
| 467 | 228 This filter selects a random rectangle from an {\em occluder} character |
| 229 images and places it over the original {\em occluded} character | |
| 230 image. Pixels are combined by taking the max(occluder,occluded), | |
| 231 closer to black. The corners of the occluder The rectangle corners | |
| 232 are sampled so that larger complexity gives larger rectangles. | |
| 233 The destination position in the occluded image are also sampled | |
| 469 | 234 according to a normal distribution (see more details in~\citet{ift6266-tr-anonymous}). |
| 467 | 235 It has has a probability of not being applied at all of 60\%.\\ |
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236 {\bf Pixel Permutation.} |
| 467 | 237 This filter permutes neighbouring pixels. It selects first |
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| 467 | 242 It has has a probability of not being applied at all of 80\%.\\ |
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| 467 | 245 noise $\sim Normal(0(\frac{complexity}{10})^2)$. |
| 246 It has has a probability of not being applied at all of 70\%.\\ | |
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247 {\bf Background Images.} |
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| 495 | 250 at random, an image from a set of images. Then a 32$\times$32 sub-region |
| 467 | 251 of that image is chosen as the background image (by sampling position |
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| 467 | 256 and $maxbg$. We also have a parameter $contrast \sim U[complexity, 1]$. |
| 257 Each background pixel value is multiplied by $\frac{max(maximage - | |
| 258 contrast, 0)}{maxbg}$ (higher contrast yield darker | |
| 259 background). The output image pixels are max(background,original).\\ | |
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260 {\bf Salt and Pepper Noise.} |
| 467 | 261 This filter adds noise $\sim U[0,1]$ to random subsets of pixels. |
| 262 The number of selected pixels is $0.2 \times complexity$. | |
| 263 This filter has a probability of not being applied at all of 75\%.\\ | |
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264 {\bf Spatially Gaussian Noise.} |
| 467 | 265 Different regions of the image are spatially smoothed. |
| 266 The image is convolved with a symmetric Gaussian kernel of | |
| 495 | 267 size and variance chosen uniformly in the ranges $[12,12 + 20 \times |
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271 uniformly from $3$ to $3 + 10 \times complexity$ pixels that will be |
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| 467 | 277 This filter has a probability of not being applied at all of 75\%.\\ |
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279 The scratches module places line-like white patches on the image. The |
| 467 | 280 lines are heavily transformed images of the digit "1" (one), chosen |
| 281 at random among five thousands such 1 images. The 1 image is | |
| 282 randomly cropped and rotated by an angle $\sim Normal(0,(100 \times | |
| 495 | 283 complexity)^2$, using bi-cubic interpolation, |
| 284 Two passes of a grey-scale morphological erosion filter | |
| 467 | 285 are applied, reducing the width of the line |
| 286 by an amount controlled by $complexity$. | |
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| 495 | 296 Contrast $\sim U[1-0.85 \times complexity,1]$ (so contrast $\geq 0.15$). |
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| 472 | 318 Whereas much previous work on deep learning algorithms had been performed on |
| 319 the MNIST digits classification task~\citep{Hinton06,ranzato-07,Bengio-nips-2006,Salakhutdinov+Hinton-2009}, | |
| 320 with 60~000 examples, and variants involving 10~000 | |
| 501 | 321 examples~\citep{Larochelle-jmlr-toappear-2008,VincentPLarochelleH2008}, we want |
| 472 | 322 to focus here on the case of much larger training sets, from 10 times to |
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| 501 | 337 Our main source of characters is the NIST Special Database 19~\citep{Grother-1995}, |
| 472 | 338 widely used for training and testing character |
| 501 | 339 recognition systems~\citep{Granger+al-2007,Cortes+al-2000,Oliveira+al-2002,Milgram+al-2005}. |
| 340 The dataset is composed with 814255 digits and characters (upper and lower cases), with hand checked classifications, | |
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342 corresponding to "0"-"9","A"-"Z" and "a"-"z". The dataset contains 8 series of different complexity. |
| 472 | 343 The fourth series, $hsf_4$, experimentally recognized to be the most difficult one is recommended |
| 501 | 344 by NIST as testing set and is used in our work and some previous work~\citep{Granger+al-2007,Cortes+al-2000,Oliveira+al-2002,Milgram+al-2005} |
| 472 | 345 for that purpose. We randomly split the remainder into a training set and a validation set for |
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| 472 | 367 generating characters of the same format as the NIST dataset. This software is based on |
| 495 | 368 a random character class generator and various kinds of transformations similar to those described in the previous sections. |
| 472 | 369 In order to increase the variability of the data generated, many different fonts are used for generating the characters. |
| 495 | 370 Transformations (slant, distortions, rotation, translation) are applied to each randomly generated character with a complexity |
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| 472 | 376 A large set (2 million) of scanned, OCRed and manually verified machine-printed |
| 377 characters (from various documents and books) where included as an | |
| 378 additional source. This set is part of a larger corpus being collected by the Image Understanding | |
| 379 Pattern Recognition Research group lead by Thomas Breuel at University of Kaiserslautern | |
| 495 | 380 ({\tt http://www.iupr.com}), and which will be publicly released. |
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| 472 | 396 and sending them through the above transformation pipeline. |
| 495 | 397 For each new example to generate, a source is selected with probability $10\%$ from the fonts, |
| 472 | 398 $25\%$ from the captchas, $25\%$ from the OCR data and $40\%$ from NIST. We apply all the transformations in the |
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| 472 | 416 Whereas previous work had compared deep architectures to both shallow MLPs and |
| 417 SVMs, we only compared to MLPs here because of the very large datasets used. | |
| 418 The MLP has a single hidden layer with $\tanh$ activation functions, and softmax (normalized | |
| 419 exponentials) on the output layer for estimating P(class | image). | |
| 420 The hyper-parameters are the following: number of hidden units, taken in | |
| 421 $\{300,500,800,1000,1500\}$. The optimization procedure is as follows. Training | |
| 422 examples are presented in minibatches of size 20. A constant learning | |
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| 472 | 427 Various auto-encoder variants and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) |
| 428 can be used to initialize the weights of each layer of a deep MLP (with many hidden | |
| 429 layers)~\citep{Hinton06,ranzato-07,Bengio-nips-2006} | |
| 430 enabling better generalization, apparently setting parameters in the | |
| 431 basin of attraction of supervised gradient descent yielding better | |
| 432 generalization~\citep{Erhan+al-2010}. It is hypothesized that the | |
| 433 advantage brought by this procedure stems from a better prior, | |
| 434 on the one hand taking advantage of the link between the input | |
| 435 distribution $P(x)$ and the conditional distribution of interest | |
| 436 $P(y|x)$ (like in semi-supervised learning), and on the other hand | |
| 437 taking advantage of the expressive power and bias implicit in the | |
| 438 deep architecture (whereby complex concepts are expressed as | |
| 439 compositions of simpler ones through a deep hierarchy). | |
| 440 Here we chose to use the Denoising | |
| 441 Auto-Encoder~\citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008} as the building block for | |
| 442 these deep hierarchies of features, as it is very simple to train and | |
| 443 teach (see tutorial and code there: {\tt http://deeplearning.net/tutorial}), | |
| 444 provides immediate and efficient inference, and yielded results | |
| 445 comparable or better than RBMs in series of experiments | |
| 446 \citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008}. During training of a Denoising | |
| 447 Auto-Encoder, it is presented with a stochastically corrupted version | |
| 448 of the input and trained to reconstruct the uncorrupted input, | |
| 449 forcing the hidden units to represent the leading regularities in | |
| 450 the data. Once it is trained, its hidden units activations can | |
| 451 be used as inputs for training a second one, etc. | |
| 452 After this unsupervised pre-training stage, the parameters | |
| 453 are used to initialize a deep MLP, which is fine-tuned by | |
| 454 the same standard procedure used to train them (see previous section). | |
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| 472 | 456 amount of corruption noise (we used the masking noise process, whereby a |
| 457 fixed proportion of the input values, randomly selected, are zeroed), and a | |
| 458 separate learning rate for the unsupervised pre-training stage (selected | |
| 459 from the same above set). The fraction of inputs corrupted was selected | |
| 460 among $\{10\%, 20\%, 50\%\}$. Another hyper-parameter is the number | |
| 461 of hidden layers but it was fixed to 3 based on previous work with | |
| 462 stacked denoising auto-encoders on MNIST~\citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008}. | |
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| 495 | 481 with 10 character images and asked to type 10 corresponding ASCII |
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489 SDA2), along with the previous results on the digits NIST special database |
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491 networks ~\citep{Granger+al-2007}, fast nearest-neighbor search |
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492 ~\citep{Cortes+al-2000}, MLPs ~\citep{Oliveira+al-2002}, and SVMs |
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497 (MLP2, SDA2). The deep learner not only outperformed the shallow ones and |
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498 previously published performance (in a statistically and qualitatively |
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500 and the 10-class (digits) task. In addition, as shown in the left of |
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501 Figure~\ref{fig:fig:improvements-charts}, the relative improvement in error |
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503 differences with the MLP are statistically and qualitatively |
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504 significant. The left side of the figure shows the improvement to the clean |
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505 NIST test set error brought by the use of out-of-distribution examples |
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507 Figure~\ref{fig:fig:improvements-charts} shows the relative improvement |
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508 brought by the use of a multi-task setting, in which the same model is |
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509 trained for more classes than the target classes of interest (i.e. training |
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511 lower-case, or upper-case characters). Again, whereas the gain from the |
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513 for the SDA. Note that for these multi-task experiment, only the original |
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514 NIST dataset is used. For example, the MLP-digits bar shows the relative |
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516 model's error / multi-task model's error). The single-task model is |
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517 trained with only 10 outputs (one per digit), seeing only digit examples, |
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518 whereas the multi-task model is trained with 62 outputs, with all 62 |
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520 all tasks. For the multi-task model, the digit error rate is measured by |
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| 475 | 526 \begin{figure}[h] |
| 527 \resizebox{.99\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/error_rates_charts.pdf}}\\ | |
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| 475 | 530 \label{fig:error-rates-charts} |
| 531 \end{figure} | |
| 532 | |
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544 define three tasks: recognizing digits (knowing that the input is a digit), |
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550 out if deep learning can benefit more (or less) from multiple related tasks |
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563 lower and upper case characters, as shown in Table~\ref{tab:multi-task}. |
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| 567 \begin{figure}[h] | |
| 568 \resizebox{.99\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/improvements_charts.pdf}}\\ | |
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| 472 | 588 MNIST digits generalize to the setting of a much larger and richer (but similar) |
| 589 dataset, the NIST special database 19, with 62 classes and around 800k examples? | |
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| 472 | 596 noise, affine transformations, background images) make the resulting |
| 597 classifier better not only on similarly perturbed images but also on | |
| 598 the {\em original clean examples}? Do deep architectures benefit more from such {\em out-of-distribution} | |
| 599 examples, i.e. do they benefit more from the self-taught learning~\citep{RainaR2007} framework? | |
| 600 MLPs were helped by perturbed training examples when tested on perturbed input images, | |
| 495 | 601 but only marginally helped with respect to clean examples. On the other hand, the deep SDAs |
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| 472 | 606 training with similar but different classes (i.e. a multi-task learning scenario) than |
| 607 a corresponding shallow and purely supervised architecture? | |
| 608 Whereas the improvement due to the multi-task setting was marginal or | |
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