Poster
Learning Deep ResNet Blocks Sequentially using Boosting Theory
Furong Huang · Jordan Ash · John Langford · Robert Schapire

Wed Jul 11th 06:15 -- 09:00 PM @ Hall B #14
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We prove a \emph{multi-channel telescoping sum boosting} theory for the ResNet architectures which simultaneously creates a new technique for boosting over features (in contrast with labels) and provides a new algorithm for ResNet-style architectures. Our proposed training algorithm, \emph{BoostResNet}, is particularly suitable in non-differentiable architectures. Our method only requires the relatively inexpensive sequential training of $T$ ``shallow ResNets''. We prove that the training error decays exponentially with the depth $T$ if the weak module classifiers that we train perform slightly better than some weak baseline. In other words, we propose a weak learning condition and prove a boosting theory for ResNet under the weak learning condition. A generalization error bound based on margin theory is proved and suggests that ResNet could be resistant to overfitting using a network with $l_1$ norm bounded weights.

Author Information

Furong Huang (University of Maryland College Park)
Jordan Ash (Princeton University)
John Langford (Microsoft Research)
Robert Schapire (Microsoft Research)

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