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Poster

The Singular Values of Convolutional Layers

Hanie Sedghi · Vineet Gupta · Phil Long

Great Hall BC #45

Keywords: [ convolutional layers ] [ operator norm ] [ singular values ] [ regularization ]


Abstract:

We characterize the singular values of the linear transformation associated with a standard 2D multi-channel convolutional layer, enabling their efficient computation. This characterization also leads to an algorithm for projecting a convolutional layer onto an operator-norm ball. We show that this is an effective regularizer; for example, it improves the test error of a deep residual network using batch normalization on CIFAR-10 from 6.2% to 5.3%.

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