The committee machine: Computational to statistical gaps in learning a two-layers neural network

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Hauptverfasser: Aubin, Benjamin, Maillard, Antoine, Barbier, Jean, Krzakala, Florent, Macris, Nicolas, Zdeborová, Lenka
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author Aubin, Benjamin
Maillard, Antoine
Barbier, Jean
Krzakala, Florent
Macris, Nicolas
Zdeborová, Lenka
author_facet Aubin, Benjamin
Maillard, Antoine
Barbier, Jean
Krzakala, Florent
Macris, Nicolas
Zdeborová, Lenka
contents Heuristic tools from statistical physics have been used in the past to locate the phase transitions and compute the optimal learning and generalization errors in the teacher-student scenario in multi-layer neural networks. In this contribution, we provide a rigorous justification of these approaches for a two-layers neural network model called the committee machine. We also introduce a version of the approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm for the committee machine that allows to perform optimal learning in polynomial time for a large set of parameters. We find that there are regimes in which a low generalization error is information-theoretically achievable while the AMP algorithm fails to deliver it, strongly suggesting that no efficient algorithm exists for those cases, and unveiling a large computational gap.
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spellingShingle The committee machine: Computational to statistical gaps in learning a two-layers neural network
Aubin, Benjamin
Maillard, Antoine
Barbier, Jean
Krzakala, Florent
Macris, Nicolas
Zdeborová, Lenka
Machine Learning
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Computational Physics
Heuristic tools from statistical physics have been used in the past to locate the phase transitions and compute the optimal learning and generalization errors in the teacher-student scenario in multi-layer neural networks. In this contribution, we provide a rigorous justification of these approaches for a two-layers neural network model called the committee machine. We also introduce a version of the approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm for the committee machine that allows to perform optimal learning in polynomial time for a large set of parameters. We find that there are regimes in which a low generalization error is information-theoretically achievable while the AMP algorithm fails to deliver it, strongly suggesting that no efficient algorithm exists for those cases, and unveiling a large computational gap.
title The committee machine: Computational to statistical gaps in learning a two-layers neural network
topic Machine Learning
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05451