Title
Recklessly Approximate Sparse Coding
Abstract
It has recently been observed that certain extremely simple feature encoding techniques are able to achieve state of the art performance on several standard image classification benchmarks including deep belief networks, convolutional nets, factored RBMs, mcRBMs, convolutional RBMs, sparse autoencoders and several others. Moreover, these "triangle" or "soft threshold" encodings are ex- tremely efficient to compute. Several intuitive arguments have been put forward to explain this remarkable performance, yet no mathematical justification has been offered. The main result of this report is to show that these features are realized as an approximate solution to the a non-negative sparse coding problem. Using this connection we describe several variants of the soft threshold features and demonstrate their effectiveness on two image classification benchmark tasks.
Year
Venue
Field
2012
CoRR
Neural coding,Deep belief network,Algorithm,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Contextual image classification,Approximate solution,Machine learning,Mathematics,Encoding (memory)
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1208.0959
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
23
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Misha Denil139726.18
Nando De Freitas23284273.68