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October 16, 11:00 AM PT

Learning Hyperparameters with Variational Bayes: The Case for a Data-Emphasized Objective

Donald Bren Hall Irvine

Abstract: A basic problem in supervised machine learning is avoiding overfitting when training a big neural network classifier. To solve this today, practitioners often resort…

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