arXiv (Cornell University)
Explicit Regularisation in Gaussian Noise Injections
July 2020 • Alexander Camuto, Matthew Willetts, Umut Şimşekli, Stephen Roberts, Chris Holmes
We study the regularisation induced in neural networks by Gaussian noise injections (GNIs). Though such injections have been extensively studied when applied to data, there have been few studies on understanding the regularising effect they induce when applied to network activations. Here we derive the explicit regulariser of GNIs, obtained by marginalising out the injected noise, and show that it penalises functions with high-frequency components in the Fourier domain; particularly in layers closer to a neural ne…