Title
Gradients as Features for Deep Representation Learning
Abstract
We address the challenging problem of deep representation learning -- the efficient adaption of a pre-trained deep network to different tasks. Specifically, we propose to explore gradient-based features. These features are gradients of the model parameters with respect to a task-specific loss given an input sample. Our key innovation is the design of a linear model that incorporates both gradient and activation of the pre-trained network. We demonstrate that our model provides a local linear approximation to an underlying deep model, and discuss important theoretical insights. Moreover, we present an efficient algorithm for the training and inference of our model without computing the actual gradients. Our method is evaluated across a number of representation-learning tasks on several datasets and using different network architectures. Strong results are obtained in all settings, and are well-aligned with our theoretical insights.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2020
ICLR
representation learning, gradient features, deep learning
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
32
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fangzhou Mu101.01
Yingyu Liang239331.39
Yin Li379735.85