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Poster

Deep Convolutional Networks as shallow Gaussian Processes

AdriĆ  Garriga-Alonso · Carl Edward Rasmussen · Laurence Aitchison

Great Hall BC #37

Keywords: [ gaussian process ] [ cnn ] [ resnet ] [ bayesian ]


Abstract:

We show that the output of a (residual) CNN with an appropriate prior over the weights and biases is a GP in the limit of infinitely many convolutional filters, extending similar results for dense networks. For a CNN, the equivalent kernel can be computed exactly and, unlike "deep kernels", has very few parameters: only the hyperparameters of the original CNN. Further, we show that this kernel has two properties that allow it to be computed efficiently; the cost of evaluating the kernel for a pair of images is similar to a single forward pass through the original CNN with only one filter per layer. The kernel equivalent to a 32-layer ResNet obtains 0.84% classification error on MNIST, a new record for GP with a comparable number of parameters.

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