Summary of Topological Blindspots: Understanding and Extending Topological Deep Learning Through the Lens Of Expressivity, by Yam Eitan et al.
Topological Blindspots: Understanding and Extending Topological Deep Learning Through the Lens of Expressivity
by Yam Eitan, Yoav Gelberg, Guy Bar-Shalom, Fabrizio Frasca, Michael Bronstein, Haggai Maron
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Algebraic Topology (math.AT); 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 Most recent advances in topological deep learning (TDL) can be unified under the framework of higher-order message-passing (HOMP), which generalizes graph message-passing to higher-order domains. However, this framework has limitations in capturing fundamental topological and metric invariants such as diameter, orientability, planarity, and homology. To address these limitations, two new classes of architectures are developed: multi-cellular networks (MCN) and scalable MCN (SMCN). SMCN is designed to be a more scalable alternative that mitigates many of HOMP’s expressivity limitations. The paper also proposes new benchmarks for evaluating models based on their ability to learn topological properties of complexes, which highlights the value of expressively leveraging topological information. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary TDL is a way to use machine learning to understand and analyze data that has special structures or patterns. Researchers have been trying to figure out how to make these methods better by using something called higher-order message-passing (HOMP). But, it turns out that HOMP isn’t perfect and can’t capture some important properties of the data. To fix this, scientists created two new ways to do TDL: multi-cellular networks (MCN) and scalable MCN (SMCN). These methods are better at capturing important details in the data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Machine learning
