Mixture-of-Distribution learning

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what

• Learn to fit each sub-distribution in the data in parallel using separate set of weights
• This could be as a learning paradigm, with another paradigm being Exploiting the Bias-Variance trade-off for data fitting

hypothesis

1. real-life distributions are combinations of sub-distributions
2. MLP can learn to fit sub-regions (sub-distributions) of the data

methodology

• (1) is tricky to prove, but we can artificially create datasets that fit that description and perform experiment on it:
  • e.g. a multi-task dataset where each task represents a sub-distribution
• need to prove (2) starting with simple MLP
  • use a shallow MLP to approximate a simple function e.g. 1 period of the sine wave
    • show that MLP can be trained to fit segments of the function
    • show the effect of different activation functions:
      • ReLU: like a linear gated unit
      • SELU: similar to ReLU but can be smoother
      • Tanh: smooth curves
      • …
    • analyse the effect on multiple period of sine
• discuss how Universal Approximation Theorems relate to this
• discuss how KAN relate to this
• explore the idea of Discriminative-Generative Learning
• analyse the effect of depth vs width

related papers

• Beyond neural scaling laws - beating power law scaling via data pruning

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