Summary of More Experts Than Galaxies: Conditionally-overlapping Experts with Biologically-inspired Fixed Routing, by Sagi Shaier et al.
More Experts Than Galaxies: Conditionally-overlapping Experts With Biologically-Inspired Fixed Routing
by Sagi Shaier, Francisco Pereira, Katharina von der Wense, Lawrence E Hunter, Matt Jones
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Conditionally Overlapping Mixture of ExperTs (COMET) is a novel deep learning method that addresses the limitations of existing sparse neural network approaches. COMET induces a modular, sparse architecture with an exponential number of overlapping experts by replacing trainable gating functions with fixed random projections applied to individual input representations. This design enables faster learning per update step and improved out-of-sample generalization. The effectiveness of COMET is demonstrated on various tasks, including image classification, language modeling, and regression, using popular deep learning architectures. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary COMET is a new way for computers to learn by combining ideas from biology and math. Right now, computers use special networks called neural networks to do things like recognize pictures or understand speech. These networks can get stuck if they have to do too many tasks at once. COMET helps with this problem by allowing the network to learn in a more efficient way. It does this by breaking down big tasks into smaller ones and using random patterns to figure out which parts of the task are similar. This makes it better at learning new things and doing them correctly. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Generalization » Image classification » Mixture of experts » Neural network » Regression
