Over-parameterised Shallow Neural Networks with Asymmetrical Node Scaling: Global Convergence Guarantees and Feature Learning

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Main Authors: Caron, Francois, Ayed, Fadhel, Jung, Paul, Lee, Hoil, Lee, Juho, Yang, Hongseok
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author Caron, Francois
Ayed, Fadhel
Jung, Paul
Lee, Hoil
Lee, Juho
Yang, Hongseok
author_facet Caron, Francois
Ayed, Fadhel
Jung, Paul
Lee, Hoil
Lee, Juho
Yang, Hongseok
contents We consider gradient-based optimisation of wide, shallow neural networks, where the output of each hidden node is scaled by a positive parameter. The scaling parameters are non-identical, differing from the classical Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) parameterisation. We prove that for large such neural networks, with high probability, gradient flow and gradient descent converge to a global minimum and can learn features in some sense, unlike in the NTK parameterisation. We perform experiments illustrating our theoretical results and discuss the benefits of such scaling in terms of prunability and transfer learning.
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spellingShingle Over-parameterised Shallow Neural Networks with Asymmetrical Node Scaling: Global Convergence Guarantees and Feature Learning
Caron, Francois
Ayed, Fadhel
Jung, Paul
Lee, Hoil
Lee, Juho
Yang, Hongseok
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
We consider gradient-based optimisation of wide, shallow neural networks, where the output of each hidden node is scaled by a positive parameter. The scaling parameters are non-identical, differing from the classical Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) parameterisation. We prove that for large such neural networks, with high probability, gradient flow and gradient descent converge to a global minimum and can learn features in some sense, unlike in the NTK parameterisation. We perform experiments illustrating our theoretical results and discuss the benefits of such scaling in terms of prunability and transfer learning.
title Over-parameterised Shallow Neural Networks with Asymmetrical Node Scaling: Global Convergence Guarantees and Feature Learning
topic Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01002