Understanding and Leveraging the Learning Phases of Neural Networks
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06887v2
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:32:45 GMT
- Title: Understanding and Leveraging the Learning Phases of Neural Networks
- Authors: Johannes Schneider and Mohit Prabhushankar
- Abstract summary: The learning dynamics of deep neural networks are not well understood.
We comprehensively analyze the learning dynamics by investigating a layer's reconstruction ability of the input and prediction performance.
We show the existence of three phases using common datasets and architectures such as ResNet and VGG.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: The learning dynamics of deep neural networks are not well understood. The
information bottleneck (IB) theory proclaimed separate fitting and compression
phases. But they have since been heavily debated. We comprehensively analyze
the learning dynamics by investigating a layer's reconstruction ability of the
input and prediction performance based on the evolution of parameters during
training. We empirically show the existence of three phases using common
datasets and architectures such as ResNet and VGG: (i) near constant
reconstruction loss, (ii) decrease, and (iii) increase. We also derive an
empirically grounded data model and prove the existence of phases for
single-layer networks. Technically, our approach leverages classical complexity
analysis. It differs from IB by relying on measuring reconstruction loss rather
than information theoretic measures to relate information of intermediate
layers and inputs. Our work implies a new best practice for transfer learning:
We show empirically that the pre-training of a classifier should stop well
before its performance is optimal.
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