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AL2: Progressive Activation Loss for Learning General Representations in Classification Neural Networks

El Helou, Majed  
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Dümbgen, Frederike  
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Süsstrunk, Sabine  
2020
2020 Ieee International Conference On Acoustics, Speech, And Signal Processing
45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP 2020

The large capacity of neural networks enables them to learn complex functions. To avoid overfitting, networks however require a lot of training data that can be expensive and time-consuming to collect. A common practical approach to attenuate overfitting is the use of network regularization techniques. We propose a novel regularization method that progressively penalizes the magnitude of activations during training. The combined activation signals produced by all neurons in a given layer form the representation of the input image in that feature space. We propose to regularize this representation in the last feature layer before classification layers. Our method's effect on generalization is analyzed with label randomization tests and cumulative ablations. Experimental results show the advantages of our approach in comparison with commonly-used regularizers on standard benchmark datasets.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054746
Web of Science ID

WOS:000615970404051

Author(s)
El Helou, Majed  
Dümbgen, Frederike  
Süsstrunk, Sabine  
Date Issued

2020

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
2020 Ieee International Conference On Acoustics, Speech, And Signal Processing
Total of pages

5

Start page

4007

End page

4011

Subjects

Neural network

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Feature representation

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Regularization

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Generalization

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Overfitting

Note

All papers accepted to ICASSP 2020 will be published on IEEE Xplore through Open Preview on 9 April 2020, and will be freely accessible and downloadable by all in final format from 9 April to 8 May 2020.

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45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP 2020

Barcelona, Spain

4-6 May, 2020

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February 13, 2020
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