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13 \title{Deep Self-Taught Learning for Handwritten Character Recognition}
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16 \begin{document}
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22 \begin{abstract}
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23 Recent theoretical and empirical work in statistical machine learning has
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24 demonstrated the importance of learning algorithms for deep
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25 architectures, i.e., function classes obtained by composing multiple
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26 non-linear transformations. Self-taught learning (exploiting unlabeled
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27 examples or examples from other distributions) has already been applied
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28 to deep learners, but mostly to show the advantage of unlabeled
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29 examples. Here we explore the advantage brought by {\em out-of-distribution examples}.
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30 For this purpose we
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31 developed a powerful generator of stochastic variations and noise
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32 processes for character images, including not only affine transformations
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33 but also slant, local elastic deformations, changes in thickness,
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34 background images, grey level changes, contrast, occlusion, and various
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35 types of noise. The out-of-distribution examples are obtained from these
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36 highly distorted images or by including examples of object classes
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37 different from those in the target test set.
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38 We show that {\em deep learners benefit
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39 more from them than a corresponding shallow learner}, at least in the area of
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40 handwritten character recognition. In fact, we show that they reach
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41 human-level performance on both handwritten digit classification and
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42 62-class handwritten character recognition.
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43 \end{abstract}
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46 \section{Introduction}
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49 {\bf Deep Learning} has emerged as a promising new area of research in
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50 statistical machine learning (see~\citet{Bengio-2009} for a review).
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51 Learning algorithms for deep architectures are centered on the learning
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52 of useful representations of data, which are better suited to the task at hand.
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53 This is in part inspired by observations of the mammalian visual cortex,
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54 which consists of a chain of processing elements, each of which is associated with a
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56 it was found recently that the features learnt in deep architectures resemble
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57 those observed in the first two of these stages (in areas V1 and V2
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58 of visual cortex)~\citep{HonglakL2008}, and that they become more and
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59 more invariant to factors of variation (such as camera movement) in
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60 higher layers~\citep{Goodfellow2009}.
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63 tailored to specific tasks, yet are able to borrow statistical strength
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64 from other related tasks (e.g., modeling different kinds of objects). Finally, learning the
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69 {\bf Self-taught learning}~\citep{RainaR2007} is a paradigm that combines principles
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70 of semi-supervised and multi-task learning: the learner can exploit examples
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71 that are unlabeled and possibly come from a distribution different from the target
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72 distribution, e.g., from other classes than those of interest.
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73 It has already been shown that deep learners can clearly take advantage of
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74 unsupervised learning and unlabeled examples~\citep{Bengio-2009,WestonJ2008-small},
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75 but more needs to be done to explore the impact
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76 of {\em out-of-distribution} examples and of the multi-task setting
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77 (one exception is~\citep{CollobertR2008}, which uses a different kind
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78 of learning algorithm). In particular the {\em relative
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79 advantage} of deep learning for these settings has not been evaluated.
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80 The hypothesis discussed in the conclusion is that a deep hierarchy of features
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81 may be better able to provide sharing of statistical strength
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97 useful for classification. Each layer is trained to denoise its
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100 %The principle is that each layer starting from
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101 %the bottom is trained to encode its input (the output of the previous
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102 %layer) and to reconstruct it from a corrupted version. After this
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103 %unsupervised initialization, the stack of DAs can be
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104 %converted into a deep supervised feedforward neural network and fine-tuned by
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105 %stochastic gradient descent.
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108 In this paper we ask the following questions:
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112 Do the good results previously obtained with deep architectures on the
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113 MNIST digit images generalize to the setting of a much larger and richer (but similar)
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114 dataset, the NIST special database 19, with 62 classes and around 800k examples?
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117 To what extent does the perturbation of input images (e.g. adding
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118 noise, affine transformations, background images) make the resulting
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119 classifiers better not only on similarly perturbed images but also on
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120 the {\em original clean examples}? We study this question in the
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121 context of the 62-class and 10-class tasks of the NIST special database 19.
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124 Do deep architectures {\em benefit more from such out-of-distribution}
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125 examples, i.e. do they benefit more from the self-taught learning~\citep{RainaR2007} framework?
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129 Similarly, does the feature learning step in deep learning algorithms benefit more
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131 a corresponding shallow and purely supervised architecture?
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132 We train on 62 classes and test on 10 (digits) or 26 (upper case or lower case)
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133 to answer this question.
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134 %\end{enumerate}
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136 Our experimental results provide positive evidence towards all of these questions.
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137 To achieve these results, we introduce in the next section a sophisticated system
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138 for stochastically transforming character images and then explain the methodology,
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139 which is based on training with or without these transformed images and testing on
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140 clean ones. We measure the relative advantage of out-of-distribution examples
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141 for a deep learner vs a supervised shallow one.
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142 Code for generating these transformations as well as for the deep learning
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143 algorithms are made available.
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144 We also estimate the relative advantage for deep learners of training with
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145 other classes than those of interest, by comparing learners trained with
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146 62 classes with learners trained with only a subset (on which they
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147 are then tested).
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148 The conclusion discusses
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149 the more general question of why deep learners may benefit so much from
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150 the self-taught learning framework.
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152 \vspace*{-3mm}
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153 \section{Perturbation and Transformation of Character Images}
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154 \label{s:perturbations}
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155 \vspace*{-2mm}
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157 \begin{wrapfigure}[8]{l}{0.15\textwidth}
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158 %\begin{minipage}[b]{0.14\linewidth}
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159 \vspace*{-5mm}
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160 \begin{center}
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161 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Original.png}\\
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162 {\bf Original}
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163 \end{center}
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164 \end{wrapfigure}
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165 %\vspace{0.7cm}
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166 %\end{minipage}%
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167 %\hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[b]{0.86\linewidth}
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168 This section describes the different transformations we used to stochastically
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169 transform $32 \times 32$ source images (such as the one on the left)
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170 in order to obtain data from a larger distribution which
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171 covers a domain substantially larger than the clean characters distribution from
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172 which we start.
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173 Although character transformations have been used before to
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174 improve character recognizers, this effort is on a large scale both
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175 in number of classes and in the complexity of the transformations, hence
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176 in the complexity of the learning task.
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177 More details can
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178 be found in this technical report~\citep{ift6266-tr-anonymous}.
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180 {\tt http://anonymous.url.net}. All the modules in the pipeline share
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181 a global control parameter ($0 \le complexity \le 1$) that allows one to modulate the
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182 amount of deformation or noise introduced.
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183 There are two main parts in the pipeline. The first one,
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184 from slant to pinch below, performs transformations. The second
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185 part, from blur to contrast, adds different kinds of noise.
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186 %\end{minipage}
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188 \vspace*{1mm}
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189 %\subsection{Transformations}
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190 {\large\bf 2.1 Transformations}
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191 \vspace*{1mm}
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194 \begin{wrapfigure}[7]{l}{0.15\textwidth}
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195 %\begin{minipage}[b]{0.14\linewidth}
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196 %\centering
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197 \begin{center}
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198 \vspace*{-5mm}
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199 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Thick_only.png}\\
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200 {\bf Thickness}
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201 \end{center}
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202 %\vspace{.6cm}
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203 %\end{minipage}%
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204 %\hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[b]{0.86\linewidth}
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205 \end{wrapfigure}
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206 To change character {\bf thickness}, morphological operators of dilation and erosion~\citep{Haralick87,Serra82}
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207 are applied. The neighborhood of each pixel is multiplied
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208 element-wise with a {\em structuring element} matrix.
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209 The pixel value is replaced by the maximum or the minimum of the resulting
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210 matrix, respectively for dilation or erosion. Ten different structural elements with
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211 increasing dimensions (largest is $5\times5$) were used. For each image,
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212 randomly sample the operator type (dilation or erosion) with equal probability and one structural
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213 element from a subset of the $n=round(m \times complexity)$ smallest structuring elements
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214 where $m=10$ for dilation and $m=6$ for erosion (to avoid completely erasing thin characters).
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215 A neutral element (no transformation)
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216 is always present in the set.
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217 %\vspace{.4cm}
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218 %\end{minipage}
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219 %\vspace{-.7cm}
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220
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221 \begin{minipage}[b]{0.14\linewidth}
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222 \centering
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223 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Slant_only.png}\\
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224 {\bf Slant}
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225 \end{minipage}%
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226 \hspace{0.3cm}
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227 \begin{minipage}[b]{0.83\linewidth}
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228 %\centering
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229 To produce {\bf slant}, each row of the image is shifted
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230 proportionally to its height: $shift = round(slant \times height)$.
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231 $slant \sim U[-complexity,complexity]$.
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232 The shift is randomly chosen to be either to the left or to the right.
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233 \vspace{1cm}
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234 \end{minipage}
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235 %\vspace*{-4mm}
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236
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237 %\begin{minipage}[b]{0.14\linewidth}
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238 %\centering
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239 \begin{wrapfigure}[8]{l}{0.15\textwidth}
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240 \vspace*{-6mm}
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241 \begin{center}
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242 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Affine_only.png}\\
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243 {\small {\bf Affine \mbox{Transformation}}}
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244 \end{center}
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245 \end{wrapfigure}
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246 %\end{minipage}%
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247 %\hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[b]{0.86\linewidth}
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248 A $2 \times 3$ {\bf affine transform} matrix (with
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249 parameters $(a,b,c,d,e,f)$) is sampled according to the $complexity$.
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250 Output pixel $(x,y)$ takes the value of input pixel
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251 nearest to $(ax+by+c,dx+ey+f)$,
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252 producing scaling, translation, rotation and shearing.
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253 Marginal distributions of $(a,b,c,d,e,f)$ have been tuned to
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254 forbid large rotations (to avoid confusing classes) but to give good
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255 variability of the transformation: $a$ and $d$ $\sim U[1-3
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256 complexity,1+3\,complexity]$, $b$ and $e$ $\sim U[-3 \,complexity,3\,
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257 complexity]$, and $c$ and $f \sim U[-4 \,complexity, 4 \,
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258 complexity]$.\\
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259 %\end{minipage}
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261 \vspace*{-4.5mm}
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263 \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
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264 \begin{wrapfigure}[7]{l}{0.15\textwidth}
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265 %\hspace*{-8mm}\begin{minipage}[b]{0.25\linewidth}
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266 %\centering
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267 \begin{center}
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268 \vspace*{-4mm}
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269 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Localelasticdistorsions_only.png}\\
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270 {\bf Local Elastic Deformation}
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271 \end{center}
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272 \end{wrapfigure}
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273 %\end{minipage}%
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274 %\hspace{-3mm}\begin{minipage}[b]{0.85\linewidth}
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275 %\vspace*{-20mm}
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276 The {\bf local elastic deformation}
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277 module induces a ``wiggly'' effect in the image, following~\citet{SimardSP03-short},
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278 which provides more details.
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279 The intensity of the displacement fields is given by
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280 $\alpha = \sqrt[3]{complexity} \times 10.0$, which are
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281 convolved with a Gaussian 2D kernel (resulting in a blur) of
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282 standard deviation $\sigma = 10 - 7 \times\sqrt[3]{complexity}$.
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283 %\vspace{.9cm}
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284 \end{minipage}
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285
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286 \vspace*{7mm}
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287
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288 %\begin{minipage}[b]{0.14\linewidth}
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289 %\centering
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290 \begin{wrapfigure}[7]{l}{0.15\textwidth}
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291 \vspace*{-5mm}
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292 \begin{center}
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293 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Pinch_only.png}\\
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294 {\bf Pinch}
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295 \end{center}
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296 \end{wrapfigure}
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297 %\vspace{.6cm}
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298 %\end{minipage}%
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299 %\hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[b]{0.86\linewidth}
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300 The {\bf pinch} module applies the ``Whirl and pinch'' GIMP filter with whirl set to 0.
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301 A pinch is ``similar to projecting the image onto an elastic
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302 surface and pressing or pulling on the center of the surface'' (GIMP documentation manual).
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303 For a square input image, draw a radius-$r$ disk
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304 around its center $C$. Any pixel $P$ belonging to
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305 that disk has its value replaced by
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306 the value of a ``source'' pixel in the original image,
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307 on the line that goes through $C$ and $P$, but
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308 at some other distance $d_2$. Define $d_1=distance(P,C)$
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309 and $d_2 = sin(\frac{\pi{}d_1}{2r})^{-pinch} \times
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310 d_1$, where $pinch$ is a parameter of the filter.
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312 around the (non-integer) source position thus found.
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313 Here $pinch \sim U[-complexity, 0.7 \times complexity]$.
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314 %\vspace{1.5cm}
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315 %\end{minipage}
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316
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317 \vspace{1mm}
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318
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319 {\large\bf 2.2 Injecting Noise}
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320 %\subsection{Injecting Noise}
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321 \vspace{2mm}
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322
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323 %\vspace*{-.2cm}
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324 \begin{minipage}[t]{0.14\linewidth}
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325 \centering
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326 \vspace*{-2mm}
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327 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Motionblur_only.png}\\
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328 {\bf Motion Blur}
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329 \end{minipage}%
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330 \hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.83\linewidth}
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331 %\vspace*{.5mm}
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332 The {\bf motion blur} module is GIMP's ``linear motion blur'', which
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333 has parameters $length$ and $angle$. The value of
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334 a pixel in the final image is approximately the mean of the first $length$ pixels
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335 found by moving in the $angle$ direction,
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336 $angle \sim U[0,360]$ degrees, and $length \sim {\rm Normal}(0,(3 \times complexity)^2)$.
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337 \vspace{5mm}
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338 \end{minipage}
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339
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340 \vspace*{1mm}
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341
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342 \begin{minipage}[t]{0.14\linewidth}
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343 \centering
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344 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/occlusion_only.png}\\
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345 {\bf Occlusion}
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346 %\vspace{.5cm}
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347 \end{minipage}%
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348 \hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.83\linewidth}
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349 \vspace*{-18mm}
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350 The {\bf occlusion} module selects a random rectangle from an {\em occluder} character
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351 image and places it over the original {\em occluded}
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352 image. Pixels are combined by taking the max(occluder, occluded),
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353 i.e. keeping the lighter ones.
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354 The rectangle corners
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355 are sampled so that larger complexity gives larger rectangles.
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356 The destination position in the occluded image are also sampled
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357 according to a normal distribution (more details in~\citet{ift6266-tr-anonymous}).
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358 This module is skipped with probability 60\%.
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359 %\vspace{7mm}
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360 \end{minipage}
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361
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362 \vspace*{1mm}
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363
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364 \begin{wrapfigure}[8]{l}{0.15\textwidth}
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365 \vspace*{-6mm}
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366 \begin{center}
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367 %\begin{minipage}[t]{0.14\linewidth}
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368 %\centering
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369 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Bruitgauss_only.png}\\
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370 {\bf Gaussian Smoothing}
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371 \end{center}
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372 \end{wrapfigure}
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373 %\vspace{.5cm}
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374 %\end{minipage}%
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375 %\hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.86\linewidth}
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376 With the {\bf Gaussian smoothing} module,
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377 different regions of the image are spatially smoothed.
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378 This is achieved by first convolving
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379 the image with an isotropic Gaussian kernel of
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380 size and variance chosen uniformly in the ranges $[12,12 + 20 \times
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381 complexity]$ and $[2,2 + 6 \times complexity]$. This filtered image is normalized
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382 between $0$ and $1$. We also create an isotropic weighted averaging window, of the
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386 initialize to zero a mask matrix of the image size. For each selected pixel
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387 we add to the mask the averaging window centered on it. The final image is
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388 computed from the following element-wise operation: $\frac{image + filtered\_image
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389 \times mask}{mask+1}$.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
390 This module is skipped with probability 75\%.
555
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
391 %\end{minipage}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
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392
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
393 \newpage
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
394
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
395 \vspace*{-9mm}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
396
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
397 %\hspace*{-3mm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.18\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
398 %\centering
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
399 \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
400 \begin{wrapfigure}[7]{l}{0.15\textwidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
401 \vspace*{-5mm}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
402 \begin{center}
558
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Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 555
diff changeset
403 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Permutpixel_only.png}\\
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
404 {\small\bf Permute Pixels}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
405 \end{center}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
406 \end{wrapfigure}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
407 %\end{minipage}%
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
408 %\hspace{-0cm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.86\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
409 %\vspace*{-20mm}
560
dc5c3f538a05 Small fixes (typos / precisions)
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 559
diff changeset
410 This module {\bf permutes neighbouring pixels}. It first selects a
dc5c3f538a05 Small fixes (typos / precisions)
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 559
diff changeset
411 fraction $\frac{complexity}{3}$ of pixels randomly in the image. Each
dc5c3f538a05 Small fixes (typos / precisions)
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 559
diff changeset
412 of these pixels is then sequentially exchanged with a random pixel
dc5c3f538a05 Small fixes (typos / precisions)
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 559
diff changeset
413 among its four nearest neighbors (on its left, right, top or bottom).
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
414 This module is skipped with probability 80\%.\\
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
415 \vspace*{1mm}
551
8f365abf171d separete the transmo image
Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org>
parents: 550
diff changeset
416 \end{minipage}
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
417
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
418 \vspace{-3mm}
523
c778d20ab6f8 space adjustments
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 522
diff changeset
419
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
420 \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
421 \begin{wrapfigure}[7]{l}{0.15\textwidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
422 %\vspace*{-3mm}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
423 \begin{center}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
424 %\hspace*{-3mm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.18\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
425 %\centering
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
426 \vspace*{-5mm}
558
143a1467f157 Fixed compilation: .PNG -> .png
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 555
diff changeset
427 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Distorsiongauss_only.png}\\
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
428 {\small \bf Gauss. Noise}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
429 \end{center}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
430 \end{wrapfigure}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
431 %\end{minipage}%
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
432 %\hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.86\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
433 \vspace*{12mm}
557
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
434 The {\bf Gaussian noise} module simply adds, to each pixel of the image independently, a
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
435 noise $\sim Normal(0,(\frac{complexity}{10})^2)$.
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17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
436 This module is skipped with probability 70\%.
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
437 %\vspace{1.1cm}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
438 \end{minipage}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
439
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
440 \vspace*{1.2cm}
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
441
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
442 \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
443 \begin{minipage}[t]{0.14\linewidth}
551
8f365abf171d separete the transmo image
Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org>
parents: 550
diff changeset
444 \centering
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
445 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/background_other_only.png}\\
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
446 {\small \bf Bg Image}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
447 \end{minipage}%
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
448 \hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.83\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
449 \vspace*{-18mm}
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
450 Following~\citet{Larochelle-jmlr-2009}, the {\bf background image} module adds a random
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
451 background image behind the letter, from a randomly chosen natural image,
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
452 with contrast adjustments depending on $complexity$, to preserve
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
453 more or less of the original character image.
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
454 %\vspace{.8cm}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
455 \end{minipage}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
456 \end{minipage}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
457 %\vspace{-.7cm}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
458
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
459 \begin{minipage}[t]{0.14\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
460 \centering
558
143a1467f157 Fixed compilation: .PNG -> .png
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 555
diff changeset
461 \includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Poivresel_only.png}\\
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
462 {\small \bf Salt \& Pepper}
551
8f365abf171d separete the transmo image
Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org>
parents: 550
diff changeset
463 \end{minipage}%
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
464 \hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.83\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
465 \vspace*{-18mm}
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
466 The {\bf salt and pepper noise} module adds noise $\sim U[0,1]$ to random subsets of pixels.
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
467 The number of selected pixels is $0.2 \times complexity$.
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
468 This module is skipped with probability 75\%.
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
469 %\vspace{.9cm}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
470 \end{minipage}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
471 %\vspace{-.7cm}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
472
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
473 \vspace{1mm}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
474
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
475 \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
476 \begin{wrapfigure}[7]{l}{0.14\textwidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
477 %\begin{minipage}[t]{0.14\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
478 %\centering
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
479 \begin{center}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
480 \vspace*{-4mm}
558
143a1467f157 Fixed compilation: .PNG -> .png
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 555
diff changeset
481 \hspace*{-1mm}\includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Rature_only.png}\\
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
482 {\bf Scratches}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
483 %\end{minipage}%
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
484 \end{center}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
485 \end{wrapfigure}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
486 %\hspace{0.3cm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.86\linewidth}
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
487 %\vspace{.4cm}
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
488 The {\bf scratches} module places line-like white patches on the image. The
517
0a5945249f2b section 2, quick first pass
Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 511
diff changeset
489 lines are heavily transformed images of the digit ``1'' (one), chosen
544
1cdfc17e890f ca fitte maintenant
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 541
diff changeset
490 at random among 500 such 1 images,
467
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 466
diff changeset
491 randomly cropped and rotated by an angle $\sim Normal(0,(100 \times
554
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 553
diff changeset
492 complexity)^2$ (in degrees), using bi-cubic interpolation.
495
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 493
diff changeset
493 Two passes of a grey-scale morphological erosion filter
467
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 466
diff changeset
494 are applied, reducing the width of the line
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 466
diff changeset
495 by an amount controlled by $complexity$.
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
496 This module is skipped with probability 85\%. The probabilities
544
1cdfc17e890f ca fitte maintenant
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 541
diff changeset
497 of applying 1, 2, or 3 patches are (50\%,30\%,20\%).
551
8f365abf171d separete the transmo image
Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org>
parents: 550
diff changeset
498 \end{minipage}
523
c778d20ab6f8 space adjustments
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 522
diff changeset
499
560
dc5c3f538a05 Small fixes (typos / precisions)
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 559
diff changeset
500 \vspace*{1mm}
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
501
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
502 \begin{minipage}[t]{0.25\linewidth}
551
8f365abf171d separete the transmo image
Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org>
parents: 550
diff changeset
503 \centering
559
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 558 557
diff changeset
504 \hspace*{-16mm}\includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/Contrast_only.png}\\
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
505 {\bf Grey Level \& Contrast}
551
8f365abf171d separete the transmo image
Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org>
parents: 550
diff changeset
506 \end{minipage}%
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
507 \hspace{-12mm}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.82\linewidth}
560
dc5c3f538a05 Small fixes (typos / precisions)
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 559
diff changeset
508 \vspace*{-18mm}
557
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
509 The {\bf grey level and contrast} module changes the contrast by changing grey levels, and may invert the image polarity (white
544
1cdfc17e890f ca fitte maintenant
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 541
diff changeset
510 to black and black to white). The contrast is $C \sim U[1-0.85 \times complexity,1]$
1cdfc17e890f ca fitte maintenant
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 541
diff changeset
511 so the image is normalized into $[\frac{1-C}{2},1-\frac{1-C}{2}]$. The
1cdfc17e890f ca fitte maintenant
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 541
diff changeset
512 polarity is inverted with probability 50\%.
555
b6dfba0a110c ameliorer l'aspect visuel, Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 554
diff changeset
513 %\vspace{.7cm}
551
8f365abf171d separete the transmo image
Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org>
parents: 550
diff changeset
514 \end{minipage}
555
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515 \vspace{2mm}
551
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516
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517
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518 \iffalse
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519 \begin{figure}[ht]
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520 \centerline{\resizebox{.9\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/example_t.png}}}\\
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521 \caption{Illustration of the pipeline of stochastic
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522 transformations applied to the image of a lower-case \emph{t}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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523 (the upper left image). Each image in the pipeline (going from
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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524 left to right, first top line, then bottom line) shows the result
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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525 of applying one of the modules in the pipeline. The last image
24f4a8b53fcc nips2010_submission.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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526 (bottom right) is used as training example.}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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527 \label{fig:pipeline}
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528 \end{figure}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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529 \fi
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560
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Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 559
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531 \vspace*{-3mm}
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532 \section{Experimental Setup}
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533 \vspace*{-1mm}
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535 Much previous work on deep learning had been performed on
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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536 the MNIST digits task~\citep{Hinton06,ranzato-07-small,Bengio-nips-2006,Salakhutdinov+Hinton-2009},
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
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537 with 60~000 examples, and variants involving 10~000
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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538 examples~\citep{Larochelle-jmlr-toappear-2008,VincentPLarochelleH2008}.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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539 The focus here is on much larger training sets, from 10 times to
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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540 to 1000 times larger, and 62 classes.
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
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541
535
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 534
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542 The first step in constructing the larger datasets (called NISTP and P07) is to sample from
499
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 495
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543 a {\em data source}: {\bf NIST} (NIST database 19), {\bf Fonts}, {\bf Captchas},
2b58eda9fc08 changements de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 495
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544 and {\bf OCR data} (scanned machine printed characters). Once a character
547
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
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545 is sampled from one of these sources (chosen randomly), the second step is to
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
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546 apply a pipeline of transformations and/or noise processes described in section \ref{s:perturbations}.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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547
547
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
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548 To provide a baseline of error rate comparison we also estimate human performance
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
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549 on both the 62-class task and the 10-class digits task.
566
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Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
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550 We compare the best Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) against
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Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
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551 the best Stacked Denoising Auto-encoders (SDA), when
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Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
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552 both models' hyper-parameters are selected to minimize the validation set error.
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Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
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553 We also provide a comparison against a precise estimate
502
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
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554 of human performance obtained via Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT)
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 524
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555 service (http://mturk.com).
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
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556 AMT users are paid small amounts
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
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557 of money to perform tasks for which human intelligence is required.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 521
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558 Mechanical Turk has been used extensively in natural language processing and vision.
d41926a68993 remis les choses qui avaient disparu
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 521
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559 %processing \citep{SnowEtAl2008} and vision
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parents: 521
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560 %\citep{SorokinAndForsyth2008,whitehill09}.
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
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561 AMT users were presented
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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562 with 10 character images (from a test set) and asked to choose 10 corresponding ASCII
569
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 568
diff changeset
563 characters. They were forced to choose a single character class (either among the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 568
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564 62 or 10 character classes) for each image.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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565 80 subjects classified 2500 images per (dataset,task) pair,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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566 with the guarantee that 3 different subjects classified each image, allowing
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 549
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567 us to estimate inter-human variability (e.g a standard error of 0.1\%
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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568 on the average 18.2\% error done by humans on the 62-class task NIST test set).
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
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569
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parents: 552
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570 \vspace*{-3mm}
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parents: 469
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571 \subsection{Data Sources}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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572 \vspace*{-2mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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573
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parents: 483
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574 %\begin{itemize}
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parents: 483
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575 %\item
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parents: 483
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576 {\bf NIST.}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 500
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577 Our main source of characters is the NIST Special Database 19~\citep{Grother-1995},
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
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578 widely used for training and testing character
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Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org>
parents: 514
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579 recognition systems~\citep{Granger+al-2007,Cortes+al-2000,Oliveira+al-2002-short,Milgram+al-2005}.
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parents: 518
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580 The dataset is composed of 814255 digits and characters (upper and lower cases), with hand checked classifications,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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581 extracted from handwritten sample forms of 3600 writers. The characters are labelled by one of the 62 classes
519
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 518
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582 corresponding to ``0''-``9'',``A''-``Z'' and ``a''-``z''. The dataset contains 8 parts (partitions) of varying complexity.
534
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 533
diff changeset
583 The fourth partition (called $hsf_4$, 82587 examples),
4d6493d171f6 added all sizes
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 533
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584 experimentally recognized to be the most difficult one, is the one recommended
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 518
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585 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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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 533
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586 for that purpose. We randomly split the remainder (731668 examples) into a training set and a validation set for
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 533
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587 model selection.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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588 The performances reported by previous work on that dataset mostly use only the digits.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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589 Here we use all the classes both in the training and testing phase. This is especially
24f4a8b53fcc nips2010_submission.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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590 useful to estimate the effect of a multi-task setting.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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591 The distribution of the classes in the NIST training and test sets differs
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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592 substantially, with relatively many more digits in the test set, and a more uniform distribution
566
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Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
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593 of letters in the test set (whereas in the training set they are distributed
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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594 more like in natural text).
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parents: 548
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595 \vspace*{-1mm}
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596
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597 %\item
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parents: 483
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598 {\bf Fonts.}
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parents: 518
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599 In order to have a good variety of sources we downloaded an important number of free fonts from:
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parents: 524
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600 {\tt http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/\textasciitilde luc/freefonts.html}.
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parents: 518
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601 % TODO: pointless to anonymize, it's not pointing to our work
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parents: 524
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602 Including the operating system's (Windows 7) fonts, there is a total of $9817$ different fonts that we can choose uniformly from.
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parents: 524
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603 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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Xavier Glorot <glorotxa@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 476
diff changeset
604 directly as input to our models.
549
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 548
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605 \vspace*{-1mm}
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Xavier Glorot <glorotxa@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 476
diff changeset
606
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 483
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607 %\item
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 483
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608 {\bf Captchas.}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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609 The Captcha data source is an adaptation of the \emph{pycaptcha} library (a python based captcha generator library) for
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
610 generating characters of the same format as the NIST dataset. This software is based on
495
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 493
diff changeset
611 a random character class generator and various kinds of transformations similar to those described in the previous sections.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
612 In order to increase the variability of the data generated, many different fonts are used for generating the characters.
495
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 493
diff changeset
613 Transformations (slant, distortions, rotation, translation) are applied to each randomly generated character with a complexity
519
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 518
diff changeset
614 depending on the value of the complexity parameter provided by the user of the data source.
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 518
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615 %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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parents: 548
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616 \vspace*{-1mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 483
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617
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 483
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618 %\item
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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619 {\bf OCR data.}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
620 A large set (2 million) of scanned, OCRed and manually verified machine-printed
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
diff changeset
621 characters where included as an
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
622 additional source. This set is part of a larger corpus being collected by the Image Understanding
550
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 549
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623 Pattern Recognition Research group led by Thomas Breuel at University of Kaiserslautern
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 493
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624 ({\tt http://www.iupr.com}), and which will be publicly released.
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 518
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625 %TODO: let's hope that Thomas is not a reviewer! :) Seriously though, maybe we should anonymize this
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 483
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626 %\end{itemize}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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627
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parents: 552
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628 \vspace*{-3mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
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629 \subsection{Data Sets}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 552
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630 \vspace*{-2mm}
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631
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
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632 All data sets contain 32$\times$32 grey-level images (values in $[0,1]$) associated with a label
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
633 from one of the 62 character classes.
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parents: 483
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634 %\begin{itemize}
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parents: 548
diff changeset
635 \vspace*{-1mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 483
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636
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 483
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637 %\item
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 533
diff changeset
638 {\bf NIST.} This is the raw NIST special database 19~\citep{Grother-1995}. It has
535
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 534
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639 \{651668 / 80000 / 82587\} \{training / validation / test\} examples.
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parents: 548
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640 \vspace*{-1mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 483
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642 %\item
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 483
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643 {\bf P07.} This dataset is obtained by taking raw characters from all four of the above sources
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parents: 524
diff changeset
644 and sending them through the transformation pipeline described in section \ref{s:perturbations}.
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645 For each new example to generate, a data source is selected with probability $10\%$ from the fonts,
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646 $25\%$ from the captchas, $25\%$ from the OCR data and $40\%$ from NIST. We apply all the transformations in the
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647 order given above, and for each of them we sample uniformly a \emph{complexity} in the range $[0,0.7]$.
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648 It has \{81920000 / 80000 / 20000\} \{training / validation / test\} examples.
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649 \vspace*{-1mm}
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650
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651 %\item
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652 {\bf NISTP.} This one is equivalent to P07 (complexity parameter of $0.7$ with the same proportions of data sources)
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
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653 except that we only apply
24f4a8b53fcc nips2010_submission.tex
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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654 transformations from slant to pinch. Therefore, the character is
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 493
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655 transformed but no additional noise is added to the image, giving images
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656 closer to the NIST dataset.
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parents: 534
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657 It has \{81920000 / 80000 / 20000\} \{training / validation / test\} examples.
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658 %\end{itemize}
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parents:
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659
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660 \vspace*{-3mm}
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661 \subsection{Models and their Hyperparameters}
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662 \vspace*{-2mm}
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663
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664 The experiments are performed using MLPs (with a single
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Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
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665 hidden layer) and SDAs.
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666 \emph{Hyper-parameters are selected based on the {\bf NISTP} validation set error.}
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667
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668 {\bf Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP).}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
669 Whereas previous work had compared deep architectures to both shallow MLPs and
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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670 SVMs, we only compared to MLPs here because of the very large datasets used
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parents: 524
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671 (making the use of SVMs computationally challenging because of their quadratic
502
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parents: 501
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672 scaling behavior).
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parents: 469
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673 The MLP has a single hidden layer with $\tanh$ activation functions, and softmax (normalized
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674 exponentials) on the output layer for estimating $P(class | image)$.
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675 The number of hidden units is taken in $\{300,500,800,1000,1500\}$.
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676 Training examples are presented in minibatches of size 20. A constant learning
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parents: 568
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677 rate was chosen among $\{0.001, 0.01, 0.025, 0.075, 0.1, 0.5\}$.
9d01280ff1c1 commentaires de Joseph Turian
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parents: 568
diff changeset
678 %through preliminary experiments (measuring performance on a validation set),
9d01280ff1c1 commentaires de Joseph Turian
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 568
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679 %and $0.1$ (which was found to work best) was then selected for optimizing on
9d01280ff1c1 commentaires de Joseph Turian
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parents: 568
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680 %the whole training sets.
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parents: 548
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681 \vspace*{-1mm}
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parents:
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682
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diff changeset
683
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684 {\bf Stacked Denoising Auto-Encoders (SDA).}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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diff changeset
685 Various auto-encoder variants and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs)
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
686 can be used to initialize the weights of each layer of a deep MLP (with many hidden
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parents: 519
diff changeset
687 layers)~\citep{Hinton06,ranzato-07-small,Bengio-nips-2006},
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 519
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688 apparently setting parameters in the
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parents: 469
diff changeset
689 basin of attraction of supervised gradient descent yielding better
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
690 generalization~\citep{Erhan+al-2010}. It is hypothesized that the
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
691 advantage brought by this procedure stems from a better prior,
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
692 on the one hand taking advantage of the link between the input
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
693 distribution $P(x)$ and the conditional distribution of interest
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
694 $P(y|x)$ (like in semi-supervised learning), and on the other hand
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
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parents: 469
diff changeset
695 taking advantage of the expressive power and bias implicit in the
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
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parents: 469
diff changeset
696 deep architecture (whereby complex concepts are expressed as
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
697 compositions of simpler ones through a deep hierarchy).
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 524
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698
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parents: 544
diff changeset
699 \begin{figure}[ht]
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parents: 544
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700 \vspace*{-2mm}
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parents: 544
diff changeset
701 \centerline{\resizebox{0.8\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/denoising_autoencoder_small.pdf}}}
549
ef172f4a322a ca fitte
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parents: 548
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702 \vspace*{-2mm}
547
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
703 \caption{Illustration of the computations and training criterion for the denoising
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
704 auto-encoder used to pre-train each layer of the deep architecture. Input $x$ of
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
705 the layer (i.e. raw input or output of previous layer)
569
9d01280ff1c1 commentaires de Joseph Turian
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 568
diff changeset
706 s corrupted into $\tilde{x}$ and encoded into code $y$ by the encoder $f_\theta(\cdot)$.
547
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
707 The decoder $g_{\theta'}(\cdot)$ maps $y$ to reconstruction $z$, which
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
708 is compared to the uncorrupted input $x$ through the loss function
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
709 $L_H(x,z)$, whose expected value is approximately minimized during training
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
710 by tuning $\theta$ and $\theta'$.}
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
711 \label{fig:da}
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
712 \vspace*{-2mm}
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
713 \end{figure}
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
714
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parents: 469
diff changeset
715 Here we chose to use the Denoising
566
b9b811e886ae Small fixes
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
diff changeset
716 Auto-encoder~\citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008} as the building block for
569
9d01280ff1c1 commentaires de Joseph Turian
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 568
diff changeset
717 these deep hierarchies of features, as it is simple to train and
532
2e33885730cf changements aux charts.ods
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 529
diff changeset
718 explain (see Figure~\ref{fig:da}, as well as
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parents: 520
diff changeset
719 tutorial and code there: {\tt http://deeplearning.net/tutorial}),
566
b9b811e886ae Small fixes
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
diff changeset
720 provides efficient inference, and yielded results
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
721 comparable or better than RBMs in series of experiments
519
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Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
parents: 518
diff changeset
722 \citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008}. During training, a Denoising
566
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Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
diff changeset
723 Auto-encoder is presented with a stochastically corrupted version
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
724 of the input and trained to reconstruct the uncorrupted input,
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
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parents: 469
diff changeset
725 forcing the hidden units to represent the leading regularities in
569
9d01280ff1c1 commentaires de Joseph Turian
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 568
diff changeset
726 the data. Here we use the random binary masking corruption
9d01280ff1c1 commentaires de Joseph Turian
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parents: 568
diff changeset
727 (which sets to 0 a random subset of the inputs).
9d01280ff1c1 commentaires de Joseph Turian
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 568
diff changeset
728 Once it is trained, in a purely unsupervised way,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 549
diff changeset
729 its hidden units' activations can
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parents: 469
diff changeset
730 be used as inputs for training a second one, etc.
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
731 After this unsupervised pre-training stage, the parameters
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
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parents: 469
diff changeset
732 are used to initialize a deep MLP, which is fine-tuned by
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
733 the same standard procedure used to train them (see previous section).
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parents: 483
diff changeset
734 The SDA hyper-parameters are the same as for the MLP, with the addition of the
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parents: 469
diff changeset
735 amount of corruption noise (we used the masking noise process, whereby a
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
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parents: 469
diff changeset
736 fixed proportion of the input values, randomly selected, are zeroed), and a
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
737 separate learning rate for the unsupervised pre-training stage (selected
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
738 from the same above set). The fraction of inputs corrupted was selected
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
739 among $\{10\%, 20\%, 50\%\}$. Another hyper-parameter is the number
2dd6e8962df1 conclusion
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 469
diff changeset
740 of hidden layers but it was fixed to 3 based on previous work with
547
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
741 SDAs on MNIST~\citep{VincentPLarochelleH2008}.
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parents:
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742
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743 \vspace*{-1mm}
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744
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parents: 522
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745 \begin{figure}[ht]
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parents: 539
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746 \vspace*{-2mm}
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parents: 522
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747 \centerline{\resizebox{.99\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/error_rates_charts.pdf}}}
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parents: 548
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748 \vspace*{-3mm}
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parents: 544
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749 \caption{SDAx are the {\bf deep} models. Error bars indicate a 95\% confidence interval. 0 indicates that the model was trained
523
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parents: 522
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750 on NIST, 1 on NISTP, and 2 on P07. Left: overall results
548
34cb28249de0 suggestions de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 547
diff changeset
751 of all models, on NIST and NISTP test sets.
523
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parents: 522
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752 Right: error rates on NIST test digits only, along with the previous results from
c778d20ab6f8 space adjustments
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 522
diff changeset
753 literature~\citep{Granger+al-2007,Cortes+al-2000,Oliveira+al-2002-short,Milgram+al-2005}
c778d20ab6f8 space adjustments
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parents: 522
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754 respectively based on ART, nearest neighbors, MLPs, and SVMs.}
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parents: 522
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755 \label{fig:error-rates-charts}
541
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parents: 539
diff changeset
756 \vspace*{-2mm}
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757 \end{figure}
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758
c778d20ab6f8 space adjustments
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parents: 522
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759
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parents: 555
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760 \begin{figure}[ht]
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
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parents: 555
diff changeset
761 \vspace*{-3mm}
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parents: 555
diff changeset
762 \centerline{\resizebox{.99\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{images/improvements_charts.pdf}}}
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
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parents: 555
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763 \vspace*{-3mm}
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parents: 555
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764 \caption{Relative improvement in error rate due to self-taught learning.
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
765 Left: Improvement (or loss, when negative)
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
766 induced by out-of-distribution examples (perturbed data).
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
767 Right: Improvement (or loss, when negative) induced by multi-task
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
768 learning (training on all classes and testing only on either digits,
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 555
diff changeset
769 upper case, or lower-case). The deep learner (SDA) benefits more from
17d16700e0c8 encore du visuel de Myriam
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parents: 555
diff changeset
770 both self-taught learning scenarios, compared to the shallow MLP.}
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parents: 555
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771 \label{fig:improvements-charts}
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parents: 555
diff changeset
772 \vspace*{-2mm}
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parents: 555
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773 \end{figure}
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parents: 555
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774
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775 \section{Experimental Results}
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776 \vspace*{-2mm}
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777
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778 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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parents: 484
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779 %\subsection{SDA vs MLP vs Humans}
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780 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 534
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781 The models are either trained on NIST (MLP0 and SDA0),
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 534
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782 NISTP (MLP1 and SDA1), or P07 (MLP2 and SDA2), and tested
550
662299f265ab suggestions from Ian
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 549
diff changeset
783 on either NIST, NISTP or P07, either on the 62-class task
568
ae6ba0309bf9 nouveaux graphes
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 566
diff changeset
784 or on the 10-digits task. Training (including about half
ae6ba0309bf9 nouveaux graphes
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 566
diff changeset
785 for unsupervised pre-training, for DAs) on the larger
ae6ba0309bf9 nouveaux graphes
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 566
diff changeset
786 datasets takes around one day on a GPU-285.
485
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 484
diff changeset
787 Figure~\ref{fig:error-rates-charts} summarizes the results obtained,
550
662299f265ab suggestions from Ian
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 549
diff changeset
788 comparing humans, the three MLPs (MLP0, MLP1, MLP2) and the three SDAs (SDA0, SDA1,
486
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 485
diff changeset
789 SDA2), along with the previous results on the digits NIST special database
566
b9b811e886ae Small fixes
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
diff changeset
790 19 test set from the literature, respectively based on ARTMAP neural
486
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 485
diff changeset
791 networks ~\citep{Granger+al-2007}, fast nearest-neighbor search
516
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Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org>
parents: 514
diff changeset
792 ~\citep{Cortes+al-2000}, MLPs ~\citep{Oliveira+al-2002-short}, and SVMs
486
877af97ee193 section resultats et appendice
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 485
diff changeset
793 ~\citep{Milgram+al-2005}. More detailed and complete numerical results
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a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
794 (figures and tables, including standard errors on the error rates) can be
535
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 534
diff changeset
795 found in Appendix I of the supplementary material.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 534
diff changeset
796 The deep learner not only outperformed the shallow ones and
493
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
797 previously published performance (in a statistically and qualitatively
535
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 534
diff changeset
798 significant way) but when trained with perturbed data
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 534
diff changeset
799 reaches human performance on both the 62-class task
523
c778d20ab6f8 space adjustments
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 522
diff changeset
800 and the 10-class (digits) task.
550
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 549
diff changeset
801 17\% error (SDA1) or 18\% error (humans) may seem large but a large
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 549
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802 majority of the errors from humans and from SDA1 are from out-of-context
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 549
diff changeset
803 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>
parents: 549
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804 ``c'' and a ``C'' are often indistinguishible).
523
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 522
diff changeset
805
c778d20ab6f8 space adjustments
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 522
diff changeset
806 In addition, as shown in the left of
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 522
diff changeset
807 Figure~\ref{fig:improvements-charts}, the relative improvement in error
493
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
808 rate brought by self-taught learning is greater for the SDA, and these
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
809 differences with the MLP are statistically and qualitatively
502
2b35a6e5ece4 changements de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
diff changeset
810 significant.
2b35a6e5ece4 changements de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
diff changeset
811 The left side of the figure shows the improvement to the clean
493
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
812 NIST test set error brought by the use of out-of-distribution examples
502
2b35a6e5ece4 changements de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
diff changeset
813 (i.e. the perturbed examples examples from NISTP or P07).
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
814 Relative percent change is measured by taking
548
34cb28249de0 suggestions de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 547
diff changeset
815 $100 \% \times$ (original model's error / perturbed-data model's error - 1).
502
2b35a6e5ece4 changements de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
diff changeset
816 The right side of
523
c778d20ab6f8 space adjustments
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 522
diff changeset
817 Figure~\ref{fig:improvements-charts} shows the relative improvement
486
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 485
diff changeset
818 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: 485
diff changeset
819 trained for more classes than the target classes of interest (i.e. training
877af97ee193 section resultats et appendice
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 485
diff changeset
820 with all 62 classes when the target classes are respectively the digits,
493
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
821 lower-case, or upper-case characters). Again, whereas the gain from the
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
822 multi-task setting is marginal or negative for the MLP, it is substantial
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
823 for the SDA. Note that to simplify these multi-task experiments, only the original
493
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
824 NIST dataset is used. For example, the MLP-digits bar shows the relative
547
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 544
diff changeset
825 percent improvement in MLP error rate on the NIST digits test set
566
b9b811e886ae Small fixes
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
diff changeset
826 is $100\% \times$ (single-task
b9b811e886ae Small fixes
Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
parents: 560
diff changeset
827 model's error / multi-task model's error - 1). The single-task model is
493
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
828 trained with only 10 outputs (one per digit), seeing only digit examples,
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
829 whereas the multi-task model is trained with 62 outputs, with all 62
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
830 character classes as examples. Hence the hidden units are shared across
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
831 all tasks. For the multi-task model, the digit error rate is measured by
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
832 comparing the correct digit class with the output class associated with the
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
833 maximum conditional probability among only the digit classes outputs. The
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
834 setting is similar for the other two target classes (lower case characters
a194ce5a4249 difference stat. sign.
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 491
diff changeset
835 and upper case characters).
485
6beaf3328521 les tables enlevées
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parents: 484
diff changeset
836 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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2b35a6e5ece4 changements de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
diff changeset
837 %\subsection{Perturbed Training Data More Helpful for SDA}
485
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parents: 484
diff changeset
838 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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diff changeset
839
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parents: 484
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840 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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parents: 484
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841 %\subsection{Multi-Task Learning Effects}
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parents: 484
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842 %\vspace*{-1mm}
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843
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 484
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844 \iffalse
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
845 As previously seen, the SDA is better able to benefit from the
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
846 transformations applied to the data than the MLP. In this experiment we
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
847 define three tasks: recognizing digits (knowing that the input is a digit),
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diff changeset
848 recognizing upper case characters (knowing that the input is one), and
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
849 recognizing lower case characters (knowing that the input is one). We
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
850 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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diff changeset
851 evaluate whether training with the other tasks can help or hurt, and
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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diff changeset
852 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:
diff changeset
853 out if deep learning can benefit more (or less) from multiple related tasks
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
854 (i.e. the multi-task setting) compared to a corresponding purely supervised
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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diff changeset
855 shallow learner.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
856
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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857 We use a single hidden layer MLP with 1000 hidden units, and a SDA
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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diff changeset
858 with 3 hidden layers (1000 hidden units per layer), pre-trained and
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
859 fine-tuned on NIST.
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
860
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
861 Our results show that the MLP benefits marginally from the multi-task setting
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
862 in the case of digits (5\% relative improvement) but is actually hurt in the case
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parents:
diff changeset
863 of characters (respectively 3\% and 4\% worse for lower and upper class characters).
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diff changeset
864 On the other hand the SDA benefited from the multi-task setting, with relative
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865 error rate improvements of 27\%, 15\% and 13\% respectively for digits,
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents:
diff changeset
866 lower and upper case characters, as shown in Table~\ref{tab:multi-task}.
485
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diff changeset
867 \fi
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868
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870 \vspace*{-2mm}
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871 \section{Conclusions and Discussion}
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diff changeset
872 \vspace*{-2mm}
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diff changeset
873
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diff changeset
874 We have found that the self-taught learning framework is more beneficial
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parents: 501
diff changeset
875 to a deep learner than to a traditional shallow and purely
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parents: 501
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876 supervised learner. More precisely,
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877 the answers are positive for all the questions asked in the introduction.
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878 %\begin{itemize}
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879
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880 $\bullet$ %\item
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881 {\bf Do the good results previously obtained with deep architectures on the
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parents: 548
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882 MNIST digits generalize to a much larger and richer (but similar)
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parents: 544
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883 dataset, the NIST special database 19, with 62 classes and around 800k examples}?
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parents: 568
diff changeset
884 Yes, the SDA {\em systematically outperformed the MLP and all the previously
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diff changeset
885 published results on this dataset} (the ones that we are aware of), {\em in fact reaching human-level
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diff changeset
886 performance} at around 17\% error on the 62-class task and 1.4\% on the digits.
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diff changeset
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888 $\bullet$ %\item
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889 {\bf To what extent do self-taught learning scenarios help deep learners,
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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890 and do they help them more than shallow supervised ones}?
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diff changeset
891 We found that distorted training examples not only made the resulting
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892 classifier better on similarly perturbed images but also on
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parents: 524
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893 the {\em original clean examples}, and more importantly and more novel,
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parents: 524
diff changeset
894 that deep architectures benefit more from such {\em out-of-distribution}
4354c3c8f49c longer conclusion
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parents: 524
diff changeset
895 examples. MLPs were helped by perturbed training examples when tested on perturbed input
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896 images (65\% relative improvement on NISTP)
2b35a6e5ece4 changements de Myriam
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parents: 501
diff changeset
897 but only marginally helped (5\% relative improvement on all classes)
2b35a6e5ece4 changements de Myriam
Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
parents: 501
diff changeset
898 or even hurt (10\% relative loss on digits)
2b35a6e5ece4 changements de Myriam
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parents: 501
diff changeset
899 with respect to clean examples . On the other hand, the deep SDAs
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parents: 568
diff changeset
900 were significantly boosted by these out-of-distribution examples.
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parents: 524
diff changeset
901 Similarly, whereas the improvement due to the multi-task setting was marginal or
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parents: 501
diff changeset
902 negative for the MLP (from +5.6\% to -3.6\% relative change),
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parents: 568
diff changeset
903 it was quite significant for the SDA (from +13\% to +27\% relative change),
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904 which may be explained by the arguments below.
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905 %\end{itemize}
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906
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907 In the original self-taught learning framework~\citep{RainaR2007}, the
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908 out-of-sample examples were used as a source of unsupervised data, and
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909 experiments showed its positive effects in a \emph{limited labeled data}
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diff changeset
910 scenario. However, many of the results by \citet{RainaR2007} (who used a
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diff changeset
911 shallow, sparse coding approach) suggest that the {\em relative gain of self-taught
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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912 learning vs ordinary supervised learning} diminishes as the number of labeled examples increases.
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913 We note instead that, for deep
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914 architectures, our experiments show that such a positive effect is accomplished
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915 even in a scenario with a \emph{large number of labeled examples},
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916 i.e., here, the relative gain of self-taught learning is probably preserved
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917 in the asymptotic regime.
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919 {\bf Why would deep learners benefit more from the self-taught learning framework}?
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920 The key idea is that the lower layers of the predictor compute a hierarchy
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921 of features that can be shared across tasks or across variants of the
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922 input distribution. Intermediate features that can be used in different
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923 contexts can be estimated in a way that allows to share statistical
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924 strength. Features extracted through many levels are more likely to
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925 be more abstract (as the experiments in~\citet{Goodfellow2009} suggest),
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926 increasing the likelihood that they would be useful for a larger array
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927 of tasks and input conditions.
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928 Therefore, we hypothesize that both depth and unsupervised
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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929 pre-training play a part in explaining the advantages observed here, and future
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930 experiments could attempt at teasing apart these factors.
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931 And why would deep learners benefit from the self-taught learning
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932 scenarios even when the number of labeled examples is very large?
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933 We hypothesize that this is related to the hypotheses studied
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934 in~\citet{Erhan+al-2010}. Whereas in~\citet{Erhan+al-2010}
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935 it was found that online learning on a huge dataset did not make the
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936 advantage of the deep learning bias vanish, a similar phenomenon
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937 may be happening here. We hypothesize that unsupervised pre-training
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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938 of a deep hierarchy with self-taught learning initializes the
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939 model in the basin of attraction of supervised gradient descent
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940 that corresponds to better generalization. Furthermore, such good
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941 basins of attraction are not discovered by pure supervised learning
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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942 (with or without self-taught settings), and more labeled examples
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943 does not allow the model to go from the poorer basins of attraction discovered
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944 by the purely supervised shallow models to the kind of better basins associated
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Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
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945 with deep learning and self-taught learning.
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946
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947 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>
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948 can be executed on-line at {\tt http://deep.host22.com}.
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949
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