Summary of Fermi-bose Machine Achieves Both Generalization and Adversarial Robustness, by Mingshan Xie and Yuchen Wang and Haiping Huang
Fermi-Bose Machine achieves both generalization and adversarial robustness
by Mingshan Xie, Yuchen Wang, Haiping Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes a novel approach to representation learning in deep neural networks, addressing the issue of adversarial examples. The authors abandon backpropagation and instead introduce local contrastive learning, where representations for inputs with the same label converge (akin to bosons) while those with different labels diverge (akin to fermions). This layer-wise learning is biologically plausible. A statistical mechanics analysis reveals that the target fermion-pair-distance is a crucial parameter. Furthermore, the application of this method to the MNIST benchmark dataset shows that the adversarial vulnerability of standard perceptrons can be significantly mitigated by tuning the target distance, controlling the geometric separation of prototype manifolds. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper develops a new way to learn representations in deep neural networks. It’s like a game where similar things come together and different things move apart. This helps make the network less vulnerable to fake examples that can fool it. The researchers use a special analysis to understand how this works, and they test it on a well-known dataset called MNIST. By adjusting a key parameter, they show that they can greatly reduce the network’s vulnerability to these fake examples. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Backpropagation » Representation learning
