GitHub user myui opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/169
[HIVEMALL-222] Introduce Gradient Clipping to avoid exploding gradient to
General Classifier/Regressor
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Avoid [exploding
gradients](http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rgrosse/courses/csc321_2017/readings/L15%20Exploding%20and%20Vanishing%20Gradients.pdf)
by gradient clipping (by value)
## What type of PR is it?
Improvement
## What is the Jira issue?
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMALL-222
## How was this patch tested?
unit tests
## Checklist
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- [x] Did you apply source code formatter, i.e., `./bin/format_code.sh`,
for your commit?
- [ ] Did you run system tests on Hive (or Spark)?
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/myui/incubator-hivemall clipping
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/169.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
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This closes #169
commit 0c10392d2a3c96b40df57e6b406333e0a239b9f9
Author: Makoto Yui
Date: 2018-10-24T08:14:15Z
Updated for debugging purpose
commit e0dc4b954650c6751d6e37ee5ecf6c9656872b16
Author: Makoto Yui
Date: 2018-10-24T08:15:03Z
Introduced gradient clipping by value to avoid exploding gradients
commit 7e932e99cfd990bb47ff7acfed44c19678fadc8f
Author: Makoto Yui
Date: 2018-10-24T08:15:52Z
Added a unit test for gradient clipping
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