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Devin Willmott

3 accepted papers

2023

Understanding the Covariance Structure of Convolutional Filters

ICLR 2023poster

Neural network weights are typically initialized at random from univariate distributions, controlling just the variance of individual weights even in highly-structured operations like convolutions. Recent ViT-inspired convolutional networks such as ConvMixer and ConvNeXt use large-kernel depthwise c…

2018

Orthogonal Recurrent Neural Networks with Scaled Cayley Transform

ICML 2018oral

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are designed to handle sequential data but suffer from vanishing or exploding gradients. Recent work on Unitary Recurrent Neural Networks (uRNNs) have been used to address this issue and in some cases, exceed the capabilities of Long Short-Term Memory networks (LSTMs…