Summary of Leveraging Intermediate Neural Collapse with Simplex Etfs For Efficient Deep Neural Networks, by Emily Liu
Leveraging Intermediate Neural Collapse with Simplex ETFs for Efficient Deep Neural Networks
by Emily Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel neural network training framework is proposed to harness the power of neural collapse, a phenomenon observed during terminal phase of training where activations, class means, and weights converge to an equiangular tight frame. The study reveals that constraining networks to such frames can reduce trainable parameters without sacrificing model accuracy. The authors propose two new approaches: Adaptive-ETF, enforcing simplex ETF constraints on layers beyond effective depth; and ETF-Transformer, applying constraints within transformer blocks. These methods achieve comparable training and testing performance while reducing learnable parameters. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Neural networks have a special way of behaving when they’re almost done learning. This is called “neural collapse”. It means that the network’s actions, what it thinks are good answers, and how it weighs those answers all come together to form a very special shape. People think this shape might help make the network work better in certain ways. But nobody has figured out how to use this phenomenon to improve training or regularization. Some researchers found that if you force the last layer of the network to follow this special shape, it can actually make the model better without using more parameters. They also discovered that very deep networks exhibit this collapse not just at the end, but all along their journey. The authors propose two new ways to train neural networks: one that enforces this special shape on deeper layers and another that does the same thing inside special blocks called transformers. These methods work just as well as older ones while using fewer parameters. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Neural network » Regularization » Transformer
