Towards Understanding Gradient Approximation in Equality Constrained Deep Declarative Networks

06/24/2023
by   Stephen Gould, et al.
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We explore conditions for when the gradient of a deep declarative node can be approximated by ignoring constraint terms and still result in a descent direction for the global loss function. This has important practical application when training deep learning models since the approximation is often computationally much more efficient than the true gradient calculation. We provide theoretical analysis for problems with linear equality constraints and normalization constraints, and show examples where the approximation works well in practice as well as some cautionary tales for when it fails.

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