Inductive Bias or Inductive Prior


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Overview

We bias the model towards solutions that we think in general are useful

  • we know that the model can learn everything from data.
  • but we want to make it a bit easier for the model to learn since we know we have not much data.
  • so you design the model according to the bias that you know

Examples:

  • CNNs images
    • CNNs has good inductive bias / prior for images
    • since CNNs use convolutions with the concept of receptive field
    • where receptive field is similar to how we interpret images
      • probably what 1 pixel cares about is its immediate neighbourhood, and what that nbh cares about is its immediate neighbourhood
  • LSTMs Sequences
    • LSTMs has good inductive bias / prior for sequences of text
    • it is how you read, one word at a time with some memory / knowledge of the previous word