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Re:Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Pro... by p1esk on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:56AM (#21654942)
OK, let's say NNs are GPs. What can we do with this information?
Re:Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Pro... by fgabriel on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:38AM (#21655097)
The paper says more than just that they are GPs, I believe it shows that the NTK (Neural Tangent Kernel https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07572) of a large class of ANN converges at initialization. This NTK allows one to gain insight on the training of NN : speed of convergence, artifacts which can appear (checkerboard patterns can be explained with NTK), generalisation of the NN...

Would be nice to get the same result during training for all these architectures and I believe it will be the next paper of G. Yang and I eager to read it.

Re:Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Pro... by joshvm on Thursday November 28, 2019 @05:35AM (#21656123)
You can use it to estimate model uncertainty, Yarin Gal has some nice writeups on this: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/yarin.gal/website/blog_3d801a... (in this case using dropout networks as GP approximations).
Re:Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Pro... by PeterisP on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:12PM (#21659194)
How would we use a property of networks with random weights to estimate uncertainty of trained models in which which the weights are (as much as we can) trained to be not random?
Re:Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Pro... by ganzuul on Thursday November 28, 2019 @02:24AM (#21655278)
I'd guess it lets us map information processes to physical processes. Information processes follow a graph which follow a power law. Physical processes of course follow GP.

Depending on how complete the map is it may let you know us come up with 'physical' laws of information. I am rooting for something which I call Boltzmann convergence.

Re:Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Pro... by AstralStorm on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:49AM (#21655643)
This means there is a way to convert any or perhaps just Gaussian markovian model to an ANN and vice versa.

This is interesting because markovian processes are much easier to intuit about.

Re:Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Pro... by p1esk on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:17PM (#21659231)
How?
Re:Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Pro... by cheez on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:04AM (#21654968)
Probably just use a normal distribution instead of a NN.
Re:Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Pro... by hobofan on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:29AM (#21655060)
Gaussian Process != simple normal distribution