Wide Mean-Field Variational Bayesian Neural Networks Ignore the Data
(2106.07052)Abstract
Variational inference enables approximate posterior inference of the highly over-parameterized neural networks that are popular in modern machine learning. Unfortunately, such posteriors are known to exhibit various pathological behaviors. We prove that as the number of hidden units in a single-layer Bayesian neural network tends to infinity, the function-space posterior mean under mean-field variational inference actually converges to zero, completely ignoring the data. This is in contrast to the true posterior, which converges to a Gaussian process. Our work provides insight into the over-regularization of the KL divergence in variational inference.
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