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20142024
most citedDropout as data augmentation

96 citations · 263 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.LG2024

Introducing Milabench: Benchmarking Accelerators for AI

Pierre Delaunay, Xavier Bouthillier, Olivier Breuleux +12

AI workloads, particularly those driven by deep learning, are introducing novel usage patterns to high-performance computing (HPC) systems that are not comprehensively captured by…

cs.LG2024

LMEMs for post-hoc analysis of HPO Benchmarking

Anton Geburek, Neeratyoy Mallik, Danny Stoll +2

The importance of tuning hyperparameters in Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) is established through empirical research and applications, evident from the increase in ne…

cs.LG2021★ 40 cited

Accounting for Variance in Machine Learning Benchmarks

Xavier Bouthillier, Pierre Delaunay, Mirko Bronzi +14

Strong empirical evidence that one machine-learning algorithm A outperforms another one B ideally calls for multiple trials optimizing the learning pipeline over sources of variati…

cs.LG2018★ 68 cited

Fast Approximate Natural Gradient Descent in a Kronecker-factored Eigenbasis

Thomas George, César Laurent, Xavier Bouthillier +2

Optimization algorithms that leverage gradient covariance information, such as variants of natural gradient descent (Amari, 1998), offer the prospect of yielding more effective des…

cs.NE2016★ 1 cited

Exact gradient updates in time independent of output size for the spherical loss family

Pascal Vincent, Alexandre de Brébisson, Xavier Bouthillier

An important class of problems involves training deep neural networks with sparse prediction targets of very high dimension D. These occur naturally in e.g. neural language models…

cs.SC2016

Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions

The Theano Development Team, Rami Al-Rfou, Guillaume Alain +110

Theano is a Python library that allows to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. Since its introduction, it has bee…

stat.ML2015★ 96 cited

Dropout as data augmentation

Xavier Bouthillier, Kishore Konda, Pascal Vincent +1

Dropout is typically interpreted as bagging a large number of models sharing parameters. We show that using dropout in a network can also be interpreted as a kind of data augmentat…

cs.LG2015★ 41 cited

EmoNets: Multimodal deep learning approaches for emotion recognition in video

Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Xavier Bouthillier, Pascal Lamblin +15

The task of the emotion recognition in the wild (EmotiW) Challenge is to assign one of seven emotions to short video clips extracted from Hollywood style movies. The videos depict…

cs.NE2014★ 17 cited

Efficient Exact Gradient Update for training Deep Networks with Very Large Sparse Targets

Pascal Vincent, Alexandre de Brébisson, Xavier Bouthillier

An important class of problems involves training deep neural networks with sparse prediction targets of very high dimension D. These occur naturally in e.g. neural language models…