Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26 (NIPS 2013)
Rupesh K Srivastava, Jonathan Masci, Sohrob Kazerounian, Faustino Gomez, Jürgen Schmidhuber
Local competition among neighboring neurons is common in biological neural networks (NNs). We apply the concept to gradient-based, backprop-trained artificial multilayer NNs. NNs with competing linear units tend to outperform those with non-competing nonlinear units, and avoid catastrophic forgetting when training sets change over time.