Learning in Convolutional Neural Networks Accelerated by Transfer Entropy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02943v1
• Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 13:31:49 GMT
• Title: Learning in Convolutional Neural Networks Accelerated by Transfer Entropy
• Authors: Adrian Moldovan, Angel Caţaron, Răzvan Andonie,
• Abstract summary: In a feedforward network, the Transfer Entropy (TE) can be used to quantify the relationships between neuron output pairs located in different layers. We introduce a novel training mechanism for CNN architectures which integrates the TE feedback connections.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recently, there is a growing interest in applying Transfer Entropy (TE) in quantifying the effective connectivity between artificial neurons. In a feedforward network, the TE can be used to quantify the relationships between neuron output pairs located in different layers. Our focus is on how to include the TE in the learning mechanisms of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture. We introduce a novel training mechanism for CNN architectures which integrates the TE feedback connections. Adding the TE feedback parameter accelerates the training process, as fewer epochs are needed. On the flip side, it adds computational overhead to each epoch. According to our experiments on CNN classifiers, to achieve a reasonable computational overhead--accuracy trade-off, it is efficient to consider only the inter-neural information transfer of a random subset of the neuron pairs from the last two fully connected layers. The TE acts as a smoothing factor, generating stability and becoming active only periodically, not after processing each input sample. Therefore, we can consider the TE is in our model a slowly changing meta-parameter.

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