Title
Noether Networks: meta-learning useful conserved quantities.
Abstract
Progress in machine learning (ML) stems from a combination of data availability, computational resources, and an appropriate encoding of inductive biases. Useful biases often exploit symmetries in the prediction problem, such as convolutional networks relying on translation equivariance. Automatically discovering these useful symmetries holds the potential to greatly improve the performance of ML systems, but still remains a challenge. In this work, we focus on sequential prediction problems and take inspiration from Noether's theorem to reduce the problem of finding inductive biases to meta-learning useful conserved quantities. We propose Noether Networks: a new type of architecture where a meta-learned conservation loss is optimized inside the prediction function. We show, theoretically and experimentally, that Noether Networks improve prediction quality, providing a general framework for discovering inductive biases in sequential problems.
Year
Venue
DocType
2021
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ferran Alet101.01
Dylan Doblar200.34
Allan Zhou301.01
Josh Tenenbaum400.34
Kenji Kawaguchi500.34
Chelsea Finn600.34