Estimating or Propagating Gradients Through Stochastic Neurons for Conditional Computation

Yoshua Bengio; Nicholas Léonard; Aaron Courville

doi:https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1308.3432

Estimating or Propagating Gradients Through Stochastic Neurons for Conditional Computation

2013 · arXiv (Cornell University) · 1,996 citations · 1 from inside this corpus

Yoshua Bengio, Nicholas Léonard, Aaron Courville

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Language Models are Few-Shot Learners→Estimating or Propagating Gradients Through Stochastic Neurons for Conditional ComputationLegacy edge — source detail unavailable
Estimating or Propagating Gradients Through Stochastic Neurons for Conditional Computation→Learning representations by back-propagating errorsLegacy edge — source detail unavailable
Estimating or Propagating Gradients Through Stochastic Neurons for Conditional Computation→Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectorsLegacy edge — source detail unavailable
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Paper	Year	Cited
Learning representations by back-propagating errors	1986	31,688
Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors	2012	6,653

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Paper	Year	Cited
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners	2020	3,020

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Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques	Computer Science
Neural Networks and Applications	Computer Science
Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods	Mathematics

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