2016

Practical Riemannian Neural Networks

Marceau-Caron, Gaétan, Ollivier, Yann

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We provide the first experimental results on non-synthetic datasets for the quasi-diagonal Riemannian gradient descents for neural networks introduced in [Ollivier, 2015].

  • These include the MNIST, SVHN, and FACE datasets as well as a previously unpublished electroencephalogram dataset.
  • The quasi-diagonal Riemannian algorithms consistently beat simple stochastic gradient gradient descents by a varying margin.
  • The computational overhead with respect to simple backpropagation is around a factor $2$.

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    Nicolas Le Roux, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol, and Yoshua Bengio · 2007

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