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Diving into the shallows: a computational perspective on large-scale shallow learning

NeurIPS 2017 · Optimization › Optimizers · approach: Natural gradient and Fisher approximations · 31 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Precondition the kernel iteration using approximate top eigenvectorsPegasos / SGD kernel learning · HINT-S, TIMIT, MNIST-8M, and HINT-Mc-error or mse after 10 epochs: 11.7% -> 10.0%; 33.0% -> 31.7%; 1.1% -> 0.8%; 2.7e-2 -> 2.3e-2Helped
Precondition the random Fourier feature iteration using approximate top eigenvectorsSGD-RF · HINT-S, TIMIT, MNIST-8M, and HINT-Mc-error or mse after 10 epochs: 11.5% -> 10.3%; 33.3% -> 32.6%; 1.0% -> 0.8%; 2.7e-2 -> 2.4e-2Helped
Use EigenPro rather than Pegasos with a Gaussian kernelKernel classification · MNISTepochs to reach KRLS classification error: 77 -> 7Helped
Use a smaller Gaussian-kernel bandwidth (σ² = 5 instead of σ² = 25) (ablation)EigenPro on MNIST · MNISTtest c-error: 1.20% -> 1.83%Hurt
Use a smaller Gaussian-kernel bandwidth (σ² = 5 instead of σ² = 25) (ablation)EigenPro on MNIST · MNISTepochs to reach best test c-error: 20 -> 5Helped
Use Laplace rather than Gaussian kernel (ablation)KRLS · MNISTbest classification error: 1.3% -> 1.6%Hurt
Use Cauchy rather than Gaussian kernel (ablation)KRLS · CIFAR-10best classification error: 49.5% -> 48.4%Helped
Train with more epochs (ablation)Pegasos with Gaussian kernel · MNISTtest c-error: 5.21% -> 1.24%Helped
Train with more epochs (ablation)EigenPro with Gaussian kernel · MNISTtest c-error: 2.03% -> 1.20% -> 1.23%Mixed

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