Inter-layer Information Similarity Assessment of Deep Neural Networks Via Topological Similarity and Persistence Analysis of Data Neighbour Dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03793v1
• Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 15:34:58 GMT
• Title: Inter-layer Information Similarity Assessment of Deep Neural Networks Via Topological Similarity and Persistence Analysis of Data Neighbour Dynamics
• Authors: Andrew Hryniowski and Alexander Wong
• Abstract summary: The quantitative analysis of information structure through a deep neural network (DNN) can unveil new insights into the theoretical performance of DNN architectures. Inspired by both LS and ID strategies for quantitative information structure analysis, we introduce two novel complimentary methods for inter-layer information similarity assessment. We demonstrate their efficacy in this study by performing analysis on a deep convolutional neural network architecture on image data.
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• Abstract: The quantitative analysis of information structure through a deep neural network (DNN) can unveil new insights into the theoretical performance of DNN architectures. Two very promising avenues of research towards quantitative information structure analysis are: 1) layer similarity (LS) strategies focused on the inter-layer feature similarity, and 2) intrinsic dimensionality (ID) strategies focused on layer-wise data dimensionality using pairwise information. Inspired by both LS and ID strategies for quantitative information structure analysis, we introduce two novel complimentary methods for inter-layer information similarity assessment premised on the interesting idea of studying a data sample's neighbourhood dynamics as it traverses through a DNN. More specifically, we introduce the concept of Nearest Neighbour Topological Similarity (NNTS) for quantifying the information topology similarity between layers of a DNN. Furthermore, we introduce the concept of Nearest Neighbour Topological Persistence (NNTP) for quantifying the inter-layer persistence of data neighbourhood relationships throughout a DNN. The proposed strategies facilitate the efficient inter-layer information similarity assessment by leveraging only local topological information, and we demonstrate their efficacy in this study by performing analysis on a deep convolutional neural network architecture on image data to study the insights that can be gained with respect to the theoretical performance of a DNN.

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