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Hello, ML enthusiasts! πŸš€πŸ€– We analyzed rotational equilibria in our latest work, ROTATIONAL EQUILIBRIUM: HOW WEIGHT DECAY BALANCES LEARNING ACROSS NEURAL NETWORKS

πŸ’‘ Our Findings: Balanced average rotational updates (effective learning rate) across all network components may play a key role in the effectiveness of AdamW.

πŸ”— ROTATIONAL EQUILIBRIUM: HOW WEIGHT DECAY BALANCES LEARNING ACROSS NEURAL NETWORKS

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[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Please explain like I'm a 5 years old.

Maybe I understand the following :
(my apologies if this is grossly simplified and doesn't help)

1- Better neural network need to contain more (stacked) layers.
2- input layer at one end of the stack is exposed to messy informations from the real world.
3- at the other end the output layer provide results from the network.
4- the first step for making this work is the training of the network during which training, learning is done.
5- instabilities and stagnation in some layers often occur when learning does not occur in an optimal way. This problem increases exponentially with the number of layers.
6- here learning is done all at once to all the layers. Something called rotation which I don't understand, is used to stabilize and optimize the learning.

I feel this is very different from human learning where it happens in stages : we first learn words, then try to assemble them to form simple sentences, then evolve to make sense of more complex notions and so on. I wish this approach could apply also in artificial intelligence development.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The human brain isn't a blank slate when it comes into existence. There are already structures that are designed to do certain things. These structures come "pre trained" and a lot of the learning humans do is more akin to the fine tuning that we do for foundation models.