When To Grow? A Fitting Risk-Aware Policy for Layer Growing in Deep Neural Networks

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Autori principali: Wu, Haihang, Wang, Wei, Malepathirana, Tamasha, Senanayake, Damith, Oetomo, Denny, Halgamuge, Saman
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author Wu, Haihang
Wang, Wei
Malepathirana, Tamasha
Senanayake, Damith
Oetomo, Denny
Halgamuge, Saman
author_facet Wu, Haihang
Wang, Wei
Malepathirana, Tamasha
Senanayake, Damith
Oetomo, Denny
Halgamuge, Saman
contents Neural growth is the process of growing a small neural network to a large network and has been utilized to accelerate the training of deep neural networks. One crucial aspect of neural growth is determining the optimal growth timing. However, few studies investigate this systematically. Our study reveals that neural growth inherently exhibits a regularization effect, whose intensity is influenced by the chosen policy for growth timing. While this regularization effect may mitigate the overfitting risk of the model, it may lead to a notable accuracy drop when the model underfits. Yet, current approaches have not addressed this issue due to their lack of consideration of the regularization effect from neural growth. Motivated by these findings, we propose an under/over fitting risk-aware growth timing policy, which automatically adjusts the growth timing informed by the level of potential under/overfitting risks to address both risks. Comprehensive experiments conducted using CIFAR-10/100 and ImageNet datasets show that the proposed policy achieves accuracy improvements of up to 1.3% in models prone to underfitting while achieving similar accuracies in models suffering from overfitting compared to the existing methods.
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spellingShingle When To Grow? A Fitting Risk-Aware Policy for Layer Growing in Deep Neural Networks
Wu, Haihang
Wang, Wei
Malepathirana, Tamasha
Senanayake, Damith
Oetomo, Denny
Halgamuge, Saman
Machine Learning
Neural growth is the process of growing a small neural network to a large network and has been utilized to accelerate the training of deep neural networks. One crucial aspect of neural growth is determining the optimal growth timing. However, few studies investigate this systematically. Our study reveals that neural growth inherently exhibits a regularization effect, whose intensity is influenced by the chosen policy for growth timing. While this regularization effect may mitigate the overfitting risk of the model, it may lead to a notable accuracy drop when the model underfits. Yet, current approaches have not addressed this issue due to their lack of consideration of the regularization effect from neural growth. Motivated by these findings, we propose an under/over fitting risk-aware growth timing policy, which automatically adjusts the growth timing informed by the level of potential under/overfitting risks to address both risks. Comprehensive experiments conducted using CIFAR-10/100 and ImageNet datasets show that the proposed policy achieves accuracy improvements of up to 1.3% in models prone to underfitting while achieving similar accuracies in models suffering from overfitting compared to the existing methods.
title When To Grow? A Fitting Risk-Aware Policy for Layer Growing in Deep Neural Networks
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03104