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Learning to Optimize Neural Nets

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arxiv 1703.00441 v2 pith:TAX457VF submitted 2017-03-01 cs.LG cs.AImath.OCstat.ML

Learning to Optimize Neural Nets

classification cs.LG cs.AImath.OCstat.ML
keywords learningoptimizationneuralalgorithmsalgorithmnetstrainingoptimize
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Learning to Optimize is a recently proposed framework for learning optimization algorithms using reinforcement learning. In this paper, we explore learning an optimization algorithm for training shallow neural nets. Such high-dimensional stochastic optimization problems present interesting challenges for existing reinforcement learning algorithms. We develop an extension that is suited to learning optimization algorithms in this setting and demonstrate that the learned optimization algorithm consistently outperforms other known optimization algorithms even on unseen tasks and is robust to changes in stochasticity of gradients and the neural net architecture. More specifically, we show that an optimization algorithm trained with the proposed method on the problem of training a neural net on MNIST generalizes to the problems of training neural nets on the Toronto Faces Dataset, CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100.

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