Summary of Sequencing the Neurome: Towards Scalable Exact Parameter Reconstruction Of Black-box Neural Networks, by Judah Goldfeder et al.
Sequencing the Neurome: Towards Scalable Exact Parameter Reconstruction of Black-Box Neural Networks
by Judah Goldfeder, Quinten Roets, Gabe Guo, John Wright, Hod Lipson
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Information Theory (cs.IT); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers tackle the challenging problem of inferring neural network parameters given only query access, an NP-Hard issue with significant implications for security, verification, interpretability, and understanding biological networks. The key challenges are the massive parameter space and complex non-linear relationships between neurons. To overcome these hurdles, the authors leverage two crucial insights: the inductive bias of random initialization and first-order optimization used in most practical neural networks, which significantly reduces the parameter space; and a novel query generation algorithm that produces maximally informative samples to efficiently untangle non-linear relationships. The proposed method is demonstrated on large-scale reconstructions, including one with over 1.5 million parameters, achieving impressive accuracy and scalability across various architectures, datasets, and training procedures. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, scientists solve a tough problem in artificial intelligence: figuring out the exact details of how a neural network works just by looking at its behavior. This is important because it could help us make sure AI systems are secure, work as intended, and understand complex biological networks too. The main challenges are that there are many possible settings for a neural network and its connections are very complicated. To overcome these issues, the researchers noticed that most real-world neural networks start in a certain way and get tweaked using simple optimization methods, which helps narrow down the possibilities. They also developed a new way to generate data that can be used to figure out how the neural network works. The authors show that their method can reconstruct very large and complex neural networks with high accuracy and speed. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Neural network » Optimization
