Summary of A Lie Group Approach to Riemannian Batch Normalization, by Ziheng Chen et al.
A Lie Group Approach to Riemannian Batch Normalization
by Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Yunmei Liu, Nicu Sebe
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a unified framework for Riemannian Batch Normalization (RBN) techniques on Lie groups, with applications in computer vision and machine learning. The authors extend Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to manifolds and develop normalization methods that control both the Riemannian mean and variance. They focus on Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) manifolds, which possess three distinct types of Lie group structures. Using the deformation concept, they generalize existing Lie groups on SPD manifolds into three families of parameterized Lie groups. The authors propose specific normalization layers induced by these Lie groups for SPD neural networks and demonstrate their effectiveness through experiments in radar recognition, human action recognition, and electroencephalography (EEG) classification. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about using special math tools to help computers learn from data that’s connected in a special way. It’s like a new kind of computer vision that can understand shapes and patterns better. The researchers developed a way to make sure the computer is looking at things correctly by controlling how it averages and compares different parts of the data. They tested this method on some tricky tasks, like recognizing human actions and reading brain signals, and it worked really well! |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Batch normalization * Classification * Machine learning
