Summary of How Deep Networks Learn Sparse and Hierarchical Data: the Sparse Random Hierarchy Model, by Umberto Tomasini and Matthieu Wyart
How Deep Networks Learn Sparse and Hierarchical Data: the Sparse Random Hierarchy Model
by Umberto Tomasini, Matthieu Wyart
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper explores the relationship between deep learning models’ ability to build abstract representations and their insensitivity to invariances, such as spatial transformations. It proposes a novel generative hierarchical model called the Sparse Random Hierarchy Model (SRHM) that explains this correlation. The SRHM is shown to learn a hierarchical representation mirroring the hierarchical model when it learns insensitivity to discrete versions of smooth transformations. This leads to improved sample complexity for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learning the SRHM, with dependencies on both sparsity and hierarchical structure. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper tries to figure out why some machine learning models are better than others. It thinks that a big part of this has to do with how these models build up a hierarchy of ideas from simple things like edges to more complex concepts. At the same time, it believes that being able to ignore small changes in the data is important too, especially for image recognition tasks. The authors come up with a new way to understand this connection by creating a special type of model called the Sparse Random Hierarchy Model (SRHM). They show that when this model learns how to be insensitive to small changes, it also learns to build up these abstract representations, which makes it better at recognizing things. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Machine learning
