A Unified Framework for Improving Misclassifications in Modern Deep Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis

The residual unit and its variations are wildly used in building very deep neural networks for alleviating optimization difficulty. In this work, we revisit the standard residual function as well as its several successful variants and propose a unified framework based on tensor Block Term Decomposition (BTD) to explain these apparently different residual functions from the tensor decomposition view. With the BTD framework, we further propose a novel basic network architecture, named the Collective Residual Unit (CRU). CRU further enhances parameter efficiency of deep residual neural networks by sharing core factors derived from collective tensor factorization over the involved residual units. It enables efficient knowledge sharing across multiple residual units, reduces the number of model parameters, lowers the risk of over-fitting, and provides better generalization ability. Extensive experimental results show that our proposed CRU network brings outstanding parameter efficiency -- it achieves comparable classification performance with ResNet-200 while using a model size as small as ResNet-50 on the ImageNet-1k and Places365-Standard benchmark datasets.

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Network Approximation using Tensor Sketching

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ◽

10.24963/ijcai.2018/321 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan ◽

Nina Narodytska ◽

Hongxia Jin

Keyword(s):

Neural Networks ◽

Language Processing ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Deep Neural Networks ◽

Network Architectures ◽

Effective Parameters ◽

Unified Framework ◽

Design Changes ◽

Target Network ◽

Fully Connected

Deep neural networks are powerful learning models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. In this paper, we study a fundamental question that arises when designing deep network architectures: Given a target network architecture can we design a `smaller' network architecture that 'approximates' the operation of the target network? The question is, in part, motivated by the challenge of parameter reduction (compression) in modern deep neural networks, as the ever increasing storage and memory requirements of these networks pose a problem in resource constrained environments.In this work, we focus on deep convolutional neural network architectures, and propose a novel randomized tensor sketching technique that we utilize to develop a unified framework for approximating the operation of both the convolutional and fully connected layers. By applying the sketching technique along different tensor dimensions, we design changes to the convolutional and fully connected layers that substantially reduce the number of effective parameters in a network. We show that the resulting smaller network can be trained directly, and has a classification accuracy that is comparable to the original network.

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