TY - JOUR TI - Gradient Regularization Improves Accuracy of Discriminative Models AU - Varga, Dániel AU - Csiszárik, Adrián AU - Zombori, Zsolt TI - Gradient Regularization Improves Accuracy of Discriminative Models AB - Regularizing the gradient norm of the output of a neural network is a powerful technique, rediscovered several times. This paper presents evidence that gradient regularization can consistently improve classification accuracy on vision tasks, using modern deep neural networks, especially when the amount of training data is small. We introduce our regularizers as members of a broader class of Jacobian-based regularizers. We demonstrate empirically on real and synthetic data that the learning process leads to gradients controlled beyond the training points, and results in solutions that generalize well. VL - 2018 IS - Volume 27 PY - 2018 SN - 1732-3916 C1 - 2083-8476 SP - 31 EP - 45 DO - 10.4467/20838476SI.18.003.10408 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/schedae-informaticae/article/gradient-regularization-improves-accuracy-of-discriminative-models KW - neural network KW - generalization KW - gradient regularization KW - spectral norm KW - Frobenius norm