论文标题
生物学在深度学习中的作用
The Role Of Biology In Deep Learning
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论文摘要
人工神经网络从其生物学对应物中汲取了很多灵感，成为我们最好的机器感知系统。这项工作总结了一些历史，并将现代理论神经科学与深度学习领域的人工神经网络进行了实验。具体而言，迭代幅度修剪用于训练稀疏连接的网络，重量减少33倍而不会损失性能。这些用于测试并最终拒绝这样的假设：仅体重稀疏就可以改善图像噪声稳健性。最近的工作减轻了使用重量稀疏性，激活稀疏性和主动树突建模的灾难性遗忘。本文复制了这些发现，并扩展了培训卷积神经网络的方法，以更具挑战性的持续学习任务。该代码已公开可用。
Artificial neural networks took a lot of inspiration from their biological counterparts in becoming our best machine perceptual systems. This work summarizes some of that history and incorporates modern theoretical neuroscience into experiments with artificial neural networks from the field of deep learning. Specifically, iterative magnitude pruning is used to train sparsely connected networks with 33x fewer weights without loss in performance. These are used to test and ultimately reject the hypothesis that weight sparsity alone improves image noise robustness. Recent work mitigated catastrophic forgetting using weight sparsity, activation sparsity, and active dendrite modeling. This paper replicates those findings, and extends the method to train convolutional neural networks on a more challenging continual learning task. The code has been made publicly available.
