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Unsupervised learning of hierarchical representations with convolutional deep belief networks

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Lee, Honglak, Grosse, Roger, Ranganath, Rajesh, Ng, Andrew Y.·2011·Communications of the ACM

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There has been much interest in unsupervised learning of hierarchical generative models such as deep belief networks (DBNs); however, scaling such models to full-sized, high-dimensional images remains a difficult problem. To address this problem, we present the convolutional deep belief network , a hierarchical generative model that scales to realistic image sizes. This model is translation-invariant and supports efficient bottom-up and top-down probabilistic inference. Key to our approach is probabilistic max-pooling , a novel technique that shrinks the representations of higher layers in a probabilistically sound way. Our experiments show that the algorithm learns useful high-level visual features, such as object parts, from unlabeled images of objects and natural scenes. We demonstrate excellent performance on several visual recognition tasks and show that our model can perform hierarchical (bottom-up and top-down) inference over full-sized images.

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Authors
Lee, H., Grosse, R., Ranganath, R., & Ng, A. Y.
Venue
Communications of the ACM
Published
2011-10
Volume
54
Issue
10
Pages
95-103
ISSN
  • 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7317
OpenAlex
W1971014294
Cited by
388
References
37
FWCI
19.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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Lee, H., Grosse, R., Ranganath, R., & Ng, A. Y. (2011). Unsupervised learning of hierarchical representations with convolutional deep belief networks. Communications of the ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2001269.2001295

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