Beating the Perils of Non-convexity: Guaranteed Training of Neural Networks Using Tensor Methods

Beating the Perils of Non-convexity: Guaranteed Training of Neural Networks Using Tensor Methods

Neyman Seminar
Nov 4, 2015, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 344 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Anima Anandkumar, UC Irvine
Training neural networks is a highly non-convex problem and in general is NP-hard. Local search methods such as gradient descent get stuck in spurious local optima, especially in high dimensions. We present a novel method based on tensor decomposition that trains a two layer neural network with guaranteed risk bounds for a large class of target functions with polynomial sample and computational...