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ArticleScientific reports2020

Power-law scaling to assist with key challenges in artificial intelligence.

Yuval Meir, Shira Sardi, Shiri Hodassman, Karin Kisos, Itamar Ben-Noam, Amir Goldental, Ido Kanter

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors.

Yuval MeirDepartment of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Shira SardiDepartment of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Shiri HodassmanDepartment of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Karin KisosDepartment of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Itamar Ben-NoamDepartment of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Amir GoldentalDepartment of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Ido KanterDepartment of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900, Ramat-Gan, Israel. ido.kanter@biu.ac.il.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Power-law scaling, a central concept in critical phenomena, is found to be useful in deep learning, where optimized test errors on handwritten digit examples converge as a power-law to zero with database size. For rapid decision making with one training epoch, each example is presented only once to the trained network, the power-law exponent increased with the number of hidden layers. For the largest dataset, the obtained test error was estimated to be in the proximity of state-of-the-art algorithms for large epoch numbers. Power-law scaling assists with key challenges found in current artificial intelligence applications and facilitates an a priori dataset size estimation to achieve a desired test accuracy. It establishes a benchmark for measuring training complexity and a quantitative hierarchy of machine learning tasks and algorithms.

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PMID33184422
PMCPMC7665018

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