Data-driven Regularization via Racecar Training for Generalizing Neural Networks
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We propose a novel training approach for improving the generalization in neural networks. We show that in contrast to regular constraints for orthogonality, our approach represents a data-dependent orthogonality constraint, and is closely related to singular value decompositions of the weight matrices. We also show how our formulation is easy to realize in practical network architectures via a reverse pass, which aims for reconstructing the full sequence of internal states of the network. Despite being a surprisingly simple change, we demonstrate that this forward-backward training approach, which we refer to as racecar training, leads to significantly more generic features being extracted from a given data set. Networks trained with our approach show more balanced mutual information between input and output throughout all layers, yield improved explainability and, exhibit improved performance for a variety of tasks and task transfers.
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