Entropy-based Guidance of Deep Neural Networks for Accelerated Convergence and Improved Performance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14938v2
• Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 23:15:39 GMT
• Title: Entropy-based Guidance of Deep Neural Networks for Accelerated Convergence and Improved Performance
• Authors: Mackenzie J. Meni, Ryan T. White, Michael Mayo, Kevin Pilkiewicz,
• Abstract summary: We derive new mathematical results to measure the changes in entropy as fully-connected and convolutional neural networks process data. By measuring the change in entropy as networks process data effectively, patterns critical to a well-performing network can be visualized and identified. Experiments in image compression, image classification, and image segmentation on benchmark datasets demonstrate these losses guide neural networks to learn rich latent data representations in fewer dimensions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Neural networks have dramatically increased our capacity to learn from large, high-dimensional datasets across innumerable disciplines. However, their decisions are not easily interpretable, their computational costs are high, and building and training them are not straightforward processes. To add structure to these efforts, we derive new mathematical results to efficiently measure the changes in entropy as fully-connected and convolutional neural networks process data. By measuring the change in entropy as networks process data effectively, patterns critical to a well-performing network can be visualized and identified. Entropy-based loss terms are developed to improve dense and convolutional model accuracy and efficiency by promoting the ideal entropy patterns. Experiments in image compression, image classification, and image segmentation on benchmark datasets demonstrate these losses guide neural networks to learn rich latent data representations in fewer dimensions, converge in fewer training epochs, and achieve higher accuracy.

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