Summary of Gradient-free Variational Learning with Conditional Mixture Networks, by Conor Heins et al.
Gradient-free variational learning with conditional mixture networks
by Conor Heins, Hao Wu, Dimitrije Markovic, Alexander Tschantz, Jeff Beck, Christopher Buckley
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces CAVI-CMN, a fast, gradient-free variational method for training conditional mixture networks (CMNs) in probabilistic deep learning. CMNs are composed of linear experts and a softmax gating network, which enables efficient updates using coordinate ascent variational inference (CAVI). The authors validate this approach by training two-layer CMNs on standard classification benchmarks from the UCI repository, achieving competitive predictive accuracy compared to maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) with backpropagation. Additionally, CAVI-CMN maintains competitive runtime and full posterior distributions over all model parameters, making it a promising tool for deep, fast, and gradient-free Bayesian networks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary CAVI-CMN is a new way to train machines that can predict things accurately while also telling us how sure they are about their predictions. This helps in situations where accuracy matters, like medical diagnosis or self-driving cars. The researchers developed this method by combining ideas from previous work and using special math tricks to make it fast and efficient. They tested CAVI-CMN on some common datasets and found that it works as well as other methods while being much faster. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Backpropagation » Classification » Deep learning » Inference » Likelihood » Softmax
