Hidden Classification Layers: Enhancing linear separability between classes in neural networks layers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06146v2
• Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 10:13:30 GMT
• Title: Hidden Classification Layers: Enhancing linear separability between classes in neural networks layers
• Authors: Andrea Apicella, Francesco Isgr\`o, Roberto Prevete
• Abstract summary: We investigate the impact on deep network performances of a training approach. We propose a neural network architecture which induces an error function involving the outputs of all the network layers.
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• Abstract: In the context of classification problems, Deep Learning (DL) approaches represent state of art. Many DL approaches are based on variations of standard multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. These are also referred to as deep networks. The basic idea is that each hidden neural layer accomplishes a data transformation which is expected to make the data representation "somewhat more linearly separable" than the previous one to obtain a final data representation which is as linearly separable as possible. However, determining the appropriate neural network parameters that can perform these transformations is a critical problem. In this paper, we investigate the impact on deep network classifier performances of a training approach favouring solutions where data representations at the hidden layers have a higher degree of linear separability between the classes with respect to standard methods. To this aim, we propose a neural network architecture which induces an error function involving the outputs of all the network layers. Although similar approaches have already been partially discussed in the past literature, here we propose a new architecture with a novel error function and an extensive experimental analysis. This experimental analysis was made in the context of image classification tasks considering four widely used datasets. The results show that our approach improves the accuracy on the test set in all the considered cases.

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