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Vikram Voleti

Alumni

Publications

Learning to Combine Top-Down and Bottom-Up Signals in Recurrent Neural Networks with Attention over Modules
Sarthak Mittal
Alex Lamb
Anirudh Goyal
Vikram Voleti
Murray P. Shanahan
Guillaume Lajoie
Michael Curtis Mozer
Yoshua Bengio
2020-01-01
ICML (published)
proceedings.mlr.press
arxiv.org
An Empirical Study of Batch Normalization and Group Normalization in Conditional Computation
Vincent Michalski
Vikram Voleti
Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Anthony Ortiz
Pascal Vincent
Chris Pal
Doina Precup
Batch normalization has been widely used to improve optimization in deep neural networks. While the uncertainty in batch statistics can act … (see more)as a regularizer, using these dataset statistics specific to the training set impairs generalization in certain tasks. Recently, alternative methods for normalizing feature activations in neural networks have been proposed. Among them, group normalization has been shown to yield similar, in some domains even superior performance to batch normalization. All these methods utilize a learned affine transformation after the normalization operation to increase representational power. Methods used in conditional computation define the parameters of these transformations as learnable functions of conditioning information. In this work, we study whether and where the conditional formulation of group normalization can improve generalization compared to conditional batch normalization. We evaluate performances on the tasks of visual question answering, few-shot learning, and conditional image generation.
2019-07-31
ArXiv (preprint)
arxiv.org
arxiv.org