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On Bridging the Gap between Mean Field and Finite Width Deep Random Multilayer Perceptron with Batch Normalization

Amir Joudaki · Hadi Daneshmand · Francis Bach

Exhibit Hall 1 #221
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Abstract:

Mean-field theory is widely used in theoretical studies of neural networks. In this paper, we analyze the role of depth in the concentration of mean-field predictions for Gram matrices of hidden representations in deep multilayer perceptron (MLP) with batch normalization (BN) at initialization. It is postulated that the mean-field predictions suffer from layer-wise errors that amplify with depth. We demonstrate that BN avoids this error amplification with depth. When the chain of hidden representations is rapidly mixing, we establish a concentration bound for a mean-field model of Gram matrices. To our knowledge, this is the first concentration bound that does not become vacuous with depth for standard MLPs with a finite width.

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