Neural Subnetwork Ensembles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14101v2
• Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 18:29:34 GMT
• Title: Neural Subnetwork Ensembles
• Authors: Tim Whitaker,
• Abstract summary: This dissertation introduces and formalizes a low-cost framework for constructing Subnetwork Ensembles. Child networks are formed by sampling, perturbing, and optimizingworks from a trained parent model. Our findings reveal that this approach can greatly improve training efficiency, parametric utilization, and generalization performance.
• Score: 2.44755919161855
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Neural network ensembles have been effectively used to improve generalization by combining the predictions of multiple independently trained models. However, the growing scale and complexity of deep neural networks have led to these methods becoming prohibitively expensive and time consuming to implement. Low-cost ensemble methods have become increasingly important as they can alleviate the need to train multiple models from scratch while retaining the generalization benefits that traditional ensemble learning methods afford. This dissertation introduces and formalizes a low-cost framework for constructing Subnetwork Ensembles, where a collection of child networks are formed by sampling, perturbing, and optimizing subnetworks from a trained parent model. We explore several distinct methodologies for generating child networks and we evaluate their efficacy through a variety of ablation studies and established benchmarks. Our findings reveal that this approach can greatly improve training efficiency, parametric utilization, and generalization performance while minimizing computational cost. Subnetwork Ensembles offer a compelling framework for exploring how we can build better systems by leveraging the unrealized potential of deep neural networks.

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