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most citedOn the Impact of the Activation Function on Deep Neural Networks Training

68 citations · 68 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

stat.ML2021

Probabilistic fine-tuning of pruning masks and PAC-Bayes self-bounded learning

Soufiane Hayou, Bobby He, Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

We study an approach to learning pruning masks by optimizing the expected loss of stochastic pruning masks, i.e., masks which zero out each weight independently with some weight-sp…

stat.ML2021

Regularization in ResNet with Stochastic Depth

Soufiane Hayou, Fadhel Ayed

Regularization plays a major role in modern deep learning. From classic techniques such as L1,L2 penalties to other noise-based methods such as Dropout, regularization often yields…

cs.LG2020

Stable ResNet

Soufiane Hayou, Eugenio Clerico, Bobby He +3

Deep ResNet architectures have achieved state of the art performance on many tasks. While they solve the problem of gradient vanishing, they might suffer from gradient exploding as…

stat.ML201968 cited

On the Impact of the Activation Function on Deep Neural Networks Training

Soufiane Hayou, Arnaud Doucet, Judith Rousseau

The weight initialization and the activation function of deep neural networks have a crucial impact on the performance of the training procedure. An inappropriate selection can lea…

stat.ML2018

On the Selection of Initialization and Activation Function for Deep Neural Networks

Soufiane Hayou, Arnaud Doucet, Judith Rousseau

The weight initialization and the activation function of deep neural networks have a crucial impact on the performance of the training procedure. An inappropriate selection can lea…

math.PR2017

On the overestimation of the largest eigenvalue of a covariance matrix

Soufiane Hayou

In this paper, we use a new approach to prove that the largest eigenvalue of the sample covariance matrix of a normally distributed vector is bigger than the true largest eigenvalu…