What happens when the weights in higher layers
become different from the weights in the first layer?
• The higher layers no longer implement a complementary prior.
– So performing inference using W0 transpose is no longer
correct.
– Using this incorrect inference procedure gives a variational
lower bound on the log probability of the data.
• We lose by the slackness of the bound.
• The higher layers learn a prior that is closer to the aggregated
posterior distribution of the first hidden layer.
– This improves the variational bound on the network’s model of
the data.
• Hinton, Osindero and Teh (2006) prove that the improvement is
always bigger than the loss.