An Initialization Schema for Neuronal Networks on Tabular Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03996v2
• Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:28:49 GMT
• Title: An Initialization Schema for Neuronal Networks on Tabular Data
• Authors: Wolfgang Fuhl
• Abstract summary: We show that a binomial neural network can be used effectively on tabular data. The proposed approach shows a simple but effective approach for initializing the first hidden layer in neural networks. We evaluate our approach on multiple public datasets and showcase the improved performance compared to other neural network-based approaches.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Nowadays, many modern applications require heterogeneous tabular data, which is still a challenging task in terms of regression and classification. Many approaches have been proposed to adapt neural networks for this task, but still, boosting and bagging of decision trees are the best-performing methods for this task. In this paper, we show that a binomial initialized neural network can be used effectively on tabular data. The proposed approach shows a simple but effective approach for initializing the first hidden layer in neural networks. We also show that this initializing schema can be used to jointly train ensembles by adding gradient masking to batch entries and using the binomial initialization for the last layer in a neural network. For this purpose, we modified the hinge binary loss and the soft max loss to make them applicable for joint ensemble training. We evaluate our approach on multiple public datasets and showcase the improved performance compared to other neural network-based approaches. In addition, we discuss the limitations and possible further research of our approach for improving the applicability of neural networks to tabular data. Link: https://es-cloud.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/d/8e2ab8c3fdd444e1a135/?p=%2FInitializationNeuronalNetworksTabularData&mode=list

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