Training neural networks with structured noise improves classification and generalization

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Autori principali: Benedetti, Marco, Ventura, Enrico
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author Benedetti, Marco
Ventura, Enrico
author_facet Benedetti, Marco
Ventura, Enrico
contents The beneficial role of noise-injection in learning is a consolidated concept in the field of artificial neural networks, suggesting that even biological systems might take advantage of similar mechanisms to optimize their performance. The training-with-noise algorithm proposed by Gardner and collaborators is an emblematic example of a noise-injection procedure in recurrent networks, which can be used to model biological neural systems. We show how adding structure to noisy training data can substantially improve the algorithm performance, allowing the network to approach perfect retrieval of the memories and wide basins of attraction, even in the scenario of maximal injected noise. We also prove that the so-called Hebbian Unlearning rule coincides with the training-with-noise algorithm when noise is maximal and data are stable fixed points of the network dynamics.
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spellingShingle Training neural networks with structured noise improves classification and generalization
Benedetti, Marco
Ventura, Enrico
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Machine Learning
The beneficial role of noise-injection in learning is a consolidated concept in the field of artificial neural networks, suggesting that even biological systems might take advantage of similar mechanisms to optimize their performance. The training-with-noise algorithm proposed by Gardner and collaborators is an emblematic example of a noise-injection procedure in recurrent networks, which can be used to model biological neural systems. We show how adding structure to noisy training data can substantially improve the algorithm performance, allowing the network to approach perfect retrieval of the memories and wide basins of attraction, even in the scenario of maximal injected noise. We also prove that the so-called Hebbian Unlearning rule coincides with the training-with-noise algorithm when noise is maximal and data are stable fixed points of the network dynamics.
title Training neural networks with structured noise improves classification and generalization
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13417