# HG changeset patch # User Guillaume Sicard # Date 1272903483 14400 # Node ID 89258bb41e4c408f8bf8107dd3e6a4a9d67b7a12 # Parent 5ca2936f20621585229e43b484e89178869d6892 updating values in Training with More Classes than Necessary diff -r 5ca2936f2062 -r 89258bb41e4c writeup/techreport.tex --- a/writeup/techreport.tex Mon May 03 09:42:36 2010 -0400 +++ b/writeup/techreport.tex Mon May 03 12:18:03 2010 -0400 @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ As previously seen, the SDA is better able to benefit from the transformations applied to the data than the MLP. We are now training SDAs and MLPs on single classes from NIST (respectively digits, lower case characters and upper case characters), to compare the test results with those from models trained on the entire NIST database (per-class test error, with an a priori on the desired class). The goal is to find out if training the model with more classes than necessary reduces the test error on a single class, as opposed to training it only with the desired class. We use a single hidden layer MLP with 1000 hidden units, and a SDA with 3 hidden layers (1000 hidden units per layer), pre-trained and fine-tuned on NIST. -Our results show that the MLP only benefits from a full NIST training on digits, and the test error is only 5\% smaller than a digits-specialized MLP. On the other hand, the SDA always gives better results when it is trained with the entire NIST database, compared to its specialized counterparts (with upper case character, the test errors are identical, but 27\% smaller on digits, and 9.4\% smaller on lower case characters). +Our results show that the MLP only benefits from a full NIST training on digits, and the test error is only 5\% smaller than a digits-specialized MLP. On the other hand, the SDA always gives better results when it is trained with the entire NIST database, compared to its specialized counterparts (with upper case character, the test errors is 12\% smaller, 27\% smaller on digits, and 15\% smaller on lower case characters). \section{Conclusions}