Summary of Robust Weight Initialization For Tanh Neural Networks with Fixed Point Analysis, by Hyunwoo Lee et al.
Robust Weight Initialization for Tanh Neural Networks with Fixed Point Analysis
by Hyunwoo Lee, Hayoung Choi, Hyunju Kim
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel weight initialization method for tanh neural networks, which aims to mitigate activation saturation. The method is based on an analysis of the fixed points of the function tanh(ax) and determines values of a that optimize network performance. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms Xavier initialization methods in terms of robustness, data efficiency, and convergence speed. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper finds a new way to start training neural networks with tanh activation functions. The authors want to make sure these networks don’t get stuck because of too much activation saturation. They came up with a method that works well and beats previous methods in some important ways. You can try it out and see how it works. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Tanh
