Behaviour in 0 of the Neural Networks Training Cost

  • Authors:
  • Cyril Goutte

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, building 321, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark. E-mail: Email: cg@imm.dtu.dk

  • Venue:
  • Neural Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We study the behaviour in zero of the derivatives of the cost functionused when training non-linear neural networks. It is shown that a fairnumber of first, second and higher order derivatives vanish in zero,validating the belief that 0 is a peculiar and potentially harmfullocation. These calculations are related to practical and theoreticalaspects of neural networks training.