What do CNN neurons learn: Visualization & Clustering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11725v1
• Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:29:22 GMT
• Title: What do CNN neurons learn: Visualization & Clustering
• Authors: Haoyue Dai
• Abstract summary: convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown striking progress in various tasks. Despite the high performance, the training and prediction process remains to be a black box. We address the problem of interpreting a CNN from the aspects of the input image's focus and preference.
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• Abstract: In recent years convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown striking progress in various tasks. However, despite the high performance, the training and prediction process remains to be a black box, leaving it a mystery to extract what neurons learn in CNN. In this paper, we address the problem of interpreting a CNN from the aspects of the input image's focus and preference, and the neurons' domination, activation and contribution to a concrete final prediction. Specifically, we use two techniques - visualization and clustering - to tackle the problems above. Visualization means the method of gradient descent on image pixel, and in clustering section two algorithms are proposed to cluster respectively over image categories and network neurons. Experiments and quantitative analyses have demonstrated the effectiveness of the two methods in explaining the question: what do neurons learn.

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