Deep neural network (DNN) based speech recognition is known to outperform conventional HMM based recognizer performance. However, a neural network with a largescale neural network is too fit for given data (training set) if the model is represented by...
Deep neural network (DNN) based speech recognition is known to outperform conventional HMM based recognizer performance. However, a neural network with a largescale neural network is too fit for given data (training set) if the model is represented by many features or parameters. This problem is referred to as overfitting and fails to predict new data.
To deal with overfitting, a wide range of techniques have been developed.
Pre-training methods and regularization techniques such as L1, L2, and Dropout have been developed. In this paper, we propose a neural network that reduces overfitting by applying Dropconnect, a new normalization method to RBM. It is a method to execute the learning by randomly removing the weight that is connected between the units in the learning process. This is a normalization method developed in the recently announced DROPOUT regularization method, and it is a method of reducing overfitting by combining effects of many models.
Experiments were conducted using speech data TIMIT corpus to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.