Evolutionary Computing

Path-Normalized Optimization of Recurrent Neural Networks with ReLU Activations

On 20 Oct, 2016 By admin 0 Comments

Behnam Neyshabur, Yuhuai Wu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Nathan Srebro
May, 2016
Abstract:
We investigate the parameter-space geometry of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and develop an adaptation of path-SGD optimization method, attuned to this geometry, that can learn plain RNNs with ReLU activations. On several datasets that require capturing long-term dependency structure, we show that path-SGD can significantly improve trainability of ReLU RNNs compared to RNNs trained with SGD, even with various recently suggested initialization schemes.

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