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Fast Finite Width Neural Tangent Kernel
Roman Novak · Jascha Sohl-Dickstein · Samuel Schoenholz

Thu Jul 21 07:55 AM -- 08:00 AM (PDT) @ Room 318 - 320
in Deep Learning/Optimization »

The Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK), defined as the outer product of the neural network (NN) Jacobians, has emerged as a central object of study in deep learning. In the infinite width limit, the NTK can sometimes be computed analytically and is useful for understanding training and generalization of NN architectures. At finite widths, the NTK is also used to better initialize NNs, compare the conditioning across models, perform architecture search, and do meta-learning. Unfortunately, the finite width NTK is notoriously expensive to compute, which severely limits its practical utility. We perform the first in-depth analysis of the compute and memory requirements for NTK computation in finite width networks. Leveraging the structure of neural networks, we further propose two novel algorithms that change the exponent of the compute and memory requirements of the finite width NTK, dramatically improving efficiency.Our algorithms can be applied in a black box fashion to any differentiable function, including those implementing neural networks.We open-source our implementations within the Neural Tangents package at https://github.com/google/neural-tangents.

Keywords: DL: Algorithms · DL: Everything Else · MISC: General Machine Learning Techniques · MISC: Scalable Algorithms

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Roman Novak (Google Brain)
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein (Google Brain)
Samuel Schoenholz (Google Brain)

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