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stat.ML2015★ 86 cited
Variance Reduction in SGD by Distributed Importance Sampling
Guillaume Alain, Alex Lamb, Chinnadhurai Sankar +2
Humans are able to accelerate their learning by selecting training materials that are the most informative and at the appropriate level of difficulty. We propose a framework for di…
cs.LG2015★ 2 cited
GSNs : Generative Stochastic Networks
Guillaume Alain, Yoshua Bengio, Li Yao +4
We introduce a novel training principle for probabilistic models that is an alternative to maximum likelihood. The proposed Generative Stochastic Networks (GSN) framework is based…