Summary of Black Boxes and Looking Glasses: Multilevel Symmetries, Reflection Planes, and Convex Optimization in Deep Networks, by Emi Zeger and Mert Pilanci
Black Boxes and Looking Glasses: Multilevel Symmetries, Reflection Planes, and Convex Optimization in Deep Networks
by Emi Zeger, Mert Pilanci
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary We present a novel framework for understanding deep neural network (DNN) behavior, showing that training DNNs with absolute value activation and arbitrary input dimension can be formulated as equivalent convex Lasso problems. This reformulation reveals geometric structures encoding symmetry in neural networks, formally proving a distinction between deep and shallow networks: deeper networks favor symmetric structures, enabling multilevel symmetries. Our approach also highlights the role of reflection hyperplanes spanned by training data, which are orthogonal to optimal weight vectors. Numerical experiments support our theoretical findings, demonstrating theoretically predicted features when training networks using Large Language Model embeddings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Researchers have discovered a new way to understand how deep neural networks work. They found that these networks can be treated like mathematical problems called Lasso problems. This helps us see patterns and symmetries in the networks, which is important because it shows why deeper networks are better at certain tasks than shallower ones. The team also found that the networks use special lines to help them learn from data, and their experiments confirmed these findings. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Large language model » Neural network
