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Poster
Wed May 02 11:00 AM -- 01:00 PM (PDT) @ East Meeting level; 1,2,3 #20
mixup: Beyond Empirical Risk Minimization
Hongyi Zhang · Moustapha Cisse · Yann N Dauphin · David Lopez-Paz
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Large deep neural networks are powerful, but exhibit undesirable behaviors such as memorization and sensitivity to adversarial examples. In this work, we propose mixup, a simple learning principle to alleviate these issues. In essence, mixup trains a neural network on convex combinations of pairs of examples and their labels. By doing so, mixup regularizes the neural network to favor simple linear behavior in-between training examples. Our experiments on the ImageNet-2012, CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Google commands and UCI datasets show that mixup improves the generalization of state-of-the-art neural network architectures. We also find that mixup reduces the memorization of corrupt labels, increases the robustness to adversarial examples, and stabilizes the training of generative adversarial networks.