On weight-noise-injection training

Kevin Ho, Chi-Sing Leung, John Sum*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

While injecting weight noise during training has been proposed for more than a decade to improve the convergence, generalization and fault tolerance of a neural network, not much theoretical work has been done to its convergence proof and the objective function that it is minimizing. By applying the Gladyshev Theorem, it is shown that the convergence of injecting weight noise during training an RBF network is almost sure. Besides, the corresponding objective function is essentially the mean square errors (MSE). This objective function indicates that injecting weight noise during training an radial basis function (RBF) network is not able to improve fault tolerance. Despite this technique has been effectively applied to multilayer perceptron, further analysis on the expected update equation of training MLP with weight noise injection is presented. The performance difference between these two models by applying weight injection is discussed. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neuro-Information Processing
Subtitle of host publication15th International Conference, ICONIP 2008, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages919-926
Volume5507 LNCS
EditionPART 2
ISBN (Print)3642030394, 9783642030390
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event15th International Conference on Neuro-Information Processing, ICONIP 2008 - Auckland, New Zealand
Duration: 25 Nov 200828 Nov 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5507 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Neuro-Information Processing, ICONIP 2008
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityAuckland
Period25/11/0828/11/08

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