Weakly-correlated synapses promote dimension reduction in deep neural networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11569v1
• Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 13:11:37 GMT
• Title: Weakly-correlated synapses promote dimension reduction in deep neural networks
• Authors: Jianwen Zhou, and Haiping Huang
• Abstract summary: How synaptic correlations affect neural correlations to produce disentangled hidden representations remains elusive. We propose a model of dimension reduction, taking into account pairwise correlations among synapses. Our theory determines the synaptic-correlation scaling form requiring only mathematical self-consistency.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: By controlling synaptic and neural correlations, deep learning has achieved empirical successes in improving classification performances. How synaptic correlations affect neural correlations to produce disentangled hidden representations remains elusive. Here we propose a simplified model of dimension reduction, taking into account pairwise correlations among synapses, to reveal the mechanism underlying how the synaptic correlations affect dimension reduction. Our theory determines the synaptic-correlation scaling form requiring only mathematical self-consistency, for both binary and continuous synapses. The theory also predicts that weakly-correlated synapses encourage dimension reduction compared to their orthogonal counterparts. In addition, these synapses slow down the decorrelation process along the network depth. These two computational roles are explained by the proposed mean-field equation. The theoretical predictions are in excellent agreement with numerical simulations, and the key features are also captured by a deep learning with Hebbian rules.

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