Questions tagged [gradient]
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How do we derive our loss function from the gradient objective?
I've been dwelling through RL theory and practice and one particular part I find hard to properly understand is the relation between the practical loss function and ...
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Defining a Python operation with a gradient in TensorFlow 2
I am trying to understand how I can define my own function in python, and then define its derivative so that it can be used in a GradientTape scope. I have found this answer which is for TensorFlow 1, ...
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calculating derivative of bias in backpropagation
Looking at the algorithm in wikipedia, we can implement backpropagation by calculating:
$$\delta^{L}=\left(f^{L}\right)'\cdot\nabla_{a^{L}}C$$
(where I treat $\left(f^{L}\right)'$ as an $n\times n$ ...
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How to calculate the expression for the gradient of softmax + cross entropy with respect to weights?
I'm learning cs231n on my own.
The Softmax classifier has the following loss function:
to make this clear:
$L_i$ is the loss for a particular training input
$f_j$ is the $j$th element of the vector, ...
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Why would we add regularization loss to the gradient itself in an SVM?
I'm doing CS 231n on my own. I'm looking at this solution to a question that implements a SVM.
Relevant code:
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Gradient Ascent and directional derivative
Suppose that you want to estimate a local maximum of the real function $f(x,y,z)$ with gradient ascent. Given a starting point $(x_0, y_0, z_0)$, the approach is to compute the gradient at this ...
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How does the margin constant (alpha) in the triplet loss affect the training process when it is a constant?
How does the margin constant in the triplet loss formula affect the gradient calculation when its derivative will be zero?
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Gradient and loss calculation localization in Vision Transformers
Hi all I am resorting to you to figure out where the gradient and the loss for q,k,v weights update happens in Vision Transformers.
I suspect it is the MLP/FF bit of the architecture but I am not ...
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Backpropagation in NN
During backward pass, which gradients are kept and which gradients are discarded? Why are some gradients discarded? I know that forward pass is computing the output of the network given the inputs and ...
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Question about grad() from Deep Learning by Chollet
On page 58 of the second edition of Deep Learning with Python, Chollet is illustrating an example of a forward and backward pass of a computation graph. The computation graph is given by:
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x\to w\...
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How to interpret integrated gradients in an NLP toxic text classification use-case?
I am trying to understand how integrated gradients work in the NLP case.
Let $F: \mathbb{R}^{n} \rightarrow[0,1]$ a function representing a neural network, $x \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ an input and $x' \in ...
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Is there a difference between AutoGrad and explicit derivatives (gradient)?
Will there be some differences between applying AutoGrad on the loss function (using a python library) and applying explicit gradient (the gradient from the paper or the update rule)?
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How to manually calculate the gradient that will propagate back over the network using the REINFORCE algorithm?
I am trying to implement deep reinforcement policy gradient REINFORCE in C++ and for my case there is no "autograd" method like in pytorch so I have to manually calculate the gradient.
Let´s ...
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Analytical gradients from tf.gradients don't match approximate gradients
I have a trained neural network (NN) with independent inputs x1, x2.. xn and a scalar output y.
Input ...
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Propagating -infs in pytorch and outliers in general
I am using a loss which requires sampling from probability distributions to do monte carlo integration with. Sometimes legitimate training data can throw -inf/NaN. ...
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Differentiable approximation for counting negative values in array
I have an array of time of arrivals and I want to convert it to count data using pytorch in a differentiable way.
Example arrival times:
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Why is the signed gradient of the image used for adversarial examples [duplicate]
In this paper, the gradient of the loss w.r.t. to the image is computed, but its sign is used. Why is using the sign-method better?
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Central finite distance gradient simplified [closed]
I'm asked to compute central finite difference scheme (f(i+1)-f(i-1)) on an image. My attempt is something like:
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Which Neural Network or Gradient Boosting framework is the simplest for Custom Loss Functions?
I need to implement a custom loss function.
The function is relatively simple:
$$-\sum \limits_{i=1}^m [O_{1,i} \cdot y_i-1] \ \cdot \ \operatorname{ReLu}(O_{1,i} \cdot \hat{y_i} - 1)$$
With $O$ being ...
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How batch normalization layer resolve the vanishing gradient problem?
According to this article:
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-vanishing-gradient-problem-69bf08b15484
The vanishing gradient problem occurs when using the sigmoid ...
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Vanishing gradient problem
In a neural network, does gradient vanish during a great number epochs as well, rather that only vanishing through different layers?
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Why does my manual derivative of Layer Normalization imply no gradient flow?
I recently tried computing the derivative of the layer norm function (https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06450), an essential component of transformers, but the result suggests that no gradient flows through ...
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Why a sign of gradient (plus or minus) is not enough for finding a steepest ascend?
Consider a simple 1-D function $y = x^2$ to find a maximum with the gradient ascent method.
If we start in point 3 on x-axis:
$$ \frac{\partial f}{\partial x} \...
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Gradient passthough in PyTorch
I need to quantize the inputs, but the method (bucketize) I need to do so is indifferentiable. I can of course detach the tensor, but then I lose the flow of gradients to earlier weights. I guess ...
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vanishing gradient and gradient zero
There is a well known problem vanishing gradient in BackPropagation training of ...
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How to choose appropriate epsilon value while approximating gradients to check training?
While approximating gradients, using actual epsilon to shift the weights results in wildly big gradient approximations, as the "width" of the used approximation triangle is ...
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implementing forward and backward of a Linear model
I'm implementing the code of this abstraction.
The forward is easy and looks like that:
I don't understand the backward path and how it fit's the abstraction in the first image:
Why is db defined as ...
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Intuitive explanation for representing gradient in higher dimensions
I do not understand how complex networks with many parameters/dimensions can be represented in a 3D space, and form a standard cost surface just like a simple network with, say, 2 parameters.
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Can mini-batch gradient descent outperform batch gradient descent? [duplicate]
As I was reading and going through the second course of Andrew Ng's deep learning course, I came across a sentence that said,
With a well-turned mini-batch size, usually it outperforms either
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Tensorflow.Keras: How to get gradient for an output class w.r.t a given input?
I have implemented and trained a sequential model using tf.keras. Say I am given an input array of size 8X8 and an output [0,1,0,...(rest all 0)].
How to calculate the gradient of the input w.r.t to ...
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CNN gradients with different magnitude
I have a CNN architecture with two cross entropy losses $\mathcal{L}_1$ and $\mathcal{L}_2$ summed in the total loss $\mathcal{L} = \mathcal{L}_1 + \mathcal{L}_2$. The task I want to solve is ...
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when x is a vector, derivative of vector diag(f'(x)) is formal notation?
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/readings/gradient-notes.pdf
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this note says this
$$
\frac{\partial \textbf{z}}{\partial \textbf{x}} = \text{diag}(f'(\textbf{x}))
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I know this means make ...
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Gradient of a function in Python
I've defined a function in this way:
def qfun(par):
return(par[0]+atan(par[3])*par[1]+atan(par[4])*par[2])
How can I obtain the gradient of this function ...
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How can we get gradient with some other loss function apart from MSE?
In most of the gradient search examples, the update to weights are done by subtracting the derivative of MSE.
Can we have an example, where we did not use ...
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Matlab Optimization. Meaning of warning: "The slope should be 2. It appears to be 1."
I'm using the manopt package to solve some optimization problems in matlab. The problem is of the form.
problem.cost = @(x) f(x)
problem.egrad = @(x) g(x)
After the problem definition, I check ...
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Gradient Checking: MeanSquareError. Why huge epsilon improves discrepancy?
I am using custom C++ code, and coded a simple "Mean Squared Error" layer.
Temporarily using it for the 'classification task', not a simple regression. ...maybe this causes the issues?
I don't have ...
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Vanishing Gradient vs Exploding Gradient as Activation function?
ReLU is used as an activation function that serves two purposes:
Breaking linearity in DNN.
Helping in handling Vanishing Gradient problem.
For Exploding Gradient problem, we use Gradient Clipping ...
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What does it mean for a method to be invariant to diagonal rescaling of the gradients?
In the paper which describes Adam: a method for stochastic optimization, the author states:
The method is straightforward to implement, is computationally
efficient, has little memory requirements, ...
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