Representational dissimilarity metric spaces for stochastic neural networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11665v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:32:40 GMT
• Title: Representational dissimilarity metric spaces for stochastic neural networks
• Authors: Lyndon R. Duong, Jingyang Zhou, Josue Nassar, Jules Berman, Jeroen Olieslagers, Alex H. Williams
• Abstract summary: Quantifying similarity between neural representations is a perennial problem in deep learning and neuroscience research. We generalize shape metrics to quantify differences in representations. We find that neurobiological oriented visual gratings and naturalistic scenes respectively resemble untrained and trained deep network representations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantifying similarity between neural representations -- e.g. hidden layer activation vectors -- is a perennial problem in deep learning and neuroscience research. Existing methods compare deterministic responses (e.g. artificial networks that lack stochastic layers) or averaged responses (e.g., trial-averaged firing rates in biological data). However, these measures of deterministic representational similarity ignore the scale and geometric structure of noise, both of which play important roles in neural computation. To rectify this, we generalize previously proposed shape metrics (Williams et al. 2021) to quantify differences in stochastic representations. These new distances satisfy the triangle inequality, and thus can be used as a rigorous basis for many supervised and unsupervised analyses. Leveraging this novel framework, we find that the stochastic geometries of neurobiological representations of oriented visual gratings and naturalistic scenes respectively resemble untrained and trained deep network representations. Further, we are able to more accurately predict certain network attributes (e.g. training hyperparameters) from its position in stochastic (versus deterministic) shape space.

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