Summary of Dynamics Of Supervised and Reinforcement Learning in the Non-linear Perceptron, by Christian Schmid and James M. Murray
Dynamics of Supervised and Reinforcement Learning in the Non-Linear Perceptron
by Christian Schmid, James M. Murray
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); 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 explores the relationship between task structure and learning rules in neural networks, focusing on nonlinear perceptrons performing binary classification. The authors derive flow equations describing learning using a stochastic-process approach and analyze the effects of different learning rules (supervised or reinforcement learning) and input-data distributions on the learning curve and forgetting curve. They find that input noise affects learning speed differently under supervised and reinforcement learning, and determines how quickly learning is overwritten by subsequent tasks. The authors verify their approach with real data using the MNIST dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us understand how neural networks learn new tasks and forget old ones. It shows how different ways of teaching (supervised or reinforcing) affect how fast a network learns, and how much it remembers from previous tasks. The researchers used a special math approach to figure out what happens when the network is taught with noisy data, like pictures that are slightly blurry. They found that this noise affects learning differently depending on whether the network is being supervised or reinforced. This means we can better understand how neural networks work and maybe even build more realistic ones. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Reinforcement learning » Supervised
