Regularized Training of Nearest Neighbor Language Models

Including memory banks in a natural language processing architecture increases model capacity by equipping it with additional data at inference time. In this paper, we build upon kNN-LM, which uses a pre-trained language model together with an exhaustive kNN search through the training data (memory bank) to achieve state-of-the-art results. We investigate whether we can …

Benign, Tempered, or Catastrophic: A Taxonomy of Overfitting

The practical success of overparameterized neural networks has motivated the recent scientific study of interpolating methods, which perfectly fit their training data. Certain interpolating methods, including neural networks, can fit noisy training data without catastrophically bad test performance, in defiance of standard intuitions from statistical learning theory. Aiming to explain this, a body of recent …

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Last call: Stefan Krawcyzk’s ‘Mastering MLOps’ Live Cohort

Tweet Tweet Share Share Last Updated on August 19, 2022 Sponsored Post   This is your last chance to sign up for Stefan Krawczyk’s exclusive live cohort, starting next week (August 22nd). We already have students enrolled from Apple, Amazon, Spotify, Nubank, Workfusion, Glassdoor, ServiceNow, and more. Stefan Krawczky has spent the last 15+ years …

Why Initialize a Neural Network with Random Weights

Why Initialize a Neural Network with Random Weights?

Tweet Tweet Share Share Last Updated on August 15, 2022 The weights of artificial neural networks must be initialized to small random numbers. This is because this is an expectation of the stochastic optimization algorithm used to train the model, called stochastic gradient descent. To understand this approach to problem solving, you must first understand …

When to Use MLP CNN and RNN Neural Networks

When to Use MLP, CNN, and RNN Neural Networks

Tweet Tweet Share Share Last Updated on August 15, 2022 What neural network is appropriate for your predictive modeling problem? It can be difficult for a beginner to the field of deep learning to know what type of network to use. There are so many types of networks to choose from and new methods being …