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Learning with hierarchical-deep models.

Ruslan Salakhutdinov1, Joshua B Tenenbaum, Antonio Torralba

  • 1Department of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada. rsalakhu@utstat.toronto.edu

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
|June 22, 2013
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We introduce Hierarchical-Deep (HD) models, integrating deep learning with Bayesian methods. This approach enables learning novel concepts from minimal data by building feature hierarchies and category structures.

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Area of Science:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Computational Statistics

Background:

  • Deep learning models excel at feature extraction but often require large datasets.
  • Hierarchical Bayesian models offer structured priors but can be complex to integrate with deep learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel compositional learning architecture, Hierarchical-Deep (HD) models.
  • To integrate deep learning with structured hierarchical Bayesian models for enhanced concept learning.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a compound Hierarchical Dirichlet Process-Deep Boltzmann Machine (HDP-DBM) model.
  • Incorporated a hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP) prior over top-level features in a Deep Boltzmann Machine (DBM).
  • Designed efficient learning and inference algorithms for the HDP-DBM model.

Main Results:

  • The HDP-DBM model demonstrates the ability to learn novel concepts from very few training examples.
  • Successfully learned low-level generic features, high-level correlated features, and a category hierarchy.
  • Achieved strong performance on object recognition, character recognition, and motion capture datasets with limited data.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed HDP-DBM architecture facilitates efficient learning of new concepts with minimal data.
  • This compositional approach effectively leverages hierarchical structures for improved generalization in deep learning.
  • The model shows significant promise for few-shot learning applications across various domains.