Set-based Neural Network Encoding Without Weight Tying

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16625v2
• Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:23:18 GMT
• Title: Set-based Neural Network Encoding Without Weight Tying
• Authors: Bruno Andreis, Soro Bedionita, Philip H. S. Torr, Sung Ju Hwang,
• Abstract summary: We propose a neural network weight encoding method for network property prediction. Our approach is capable of encoding neural networks in a model zoo of mixed architecture. We introduce two new tasks for neural network property prediction: cross-dataset and cross-architecture.
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• Abstract: We propose a neural network weight encoding method for network property prediction that utilizes set-to-set and set-to-vector functions to efficiently encode neural network parameters. Our approach is capable of encoding neural networks in a model zoo of mixed architecture and different parameter sizes as opposed to previous approaches that require custom encoding models for different architectures. Furthermore, our \textbf{S}et-based \textbf{N}eural network \textbf{E}ncoder (SNE) takes into consideration the hierarchical computational structure of neural networks. To respect symmetries inherent in network weight space, we utilize Logit Invariance to learn the required minimal invariance properties. Additionally, we introduce a \textit{pad-chunk-encode} pipeline to efficiently encode neural network layers that is adjustable to computational and memory constraints. We also introduce two new tasks for neural network property prediction: cross-dataset and cross-architecture. In cross-dataset property prediction, we evaluate how well property predictors generalize across model zoos trained on different datasets but of the same architecture. In cross-architecture property prediction, we evaluate how well property predictors transfer to model zoos of different architecture not seen during training. We show that SNE outperforms the relevant baselines on standard benchmarks.

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