2015

Knowledge Transfer Pre-training

Tang, Zhiyuan, Wang, Dong, Pan, Yiqiao et al.

Understand

Pre-training is crucial for learning deep neural networks.

  • Most of existing pre-training methods train simple models (e.g., restricted Boltzmann machines) and then stack them layer by layer to form the deep structure.
  • This layer-wise pre-training has found strong theoretical foundation and broad empirical support.
  • However, it is not easy to employ such method to pre-train models without a clear multi-layer structure,e.g., recurrent neural networks (RNNs).

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