Characterization of topological structures in different neural network architectures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06286v1
• Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 18:02:18 GMT
• Title: Characterization of topological structures in different neural network architectures
• Authors: Paweł Świder,
• Abstract summary: We develop methods for analyzing representations from different architectures and check how one should use them to obtain valid results. We applied these methods for ResNet, VGG19, and ViT architectures and found substantial differences along with some similarities.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: One of the most crucial tasks in the future will be to understand what is going on in neural networks, as they will become even more powerful and widely deployed. This work aims to use TDA methods to analyze neural representations. We develop methods for analyzing representations from different architectures and check how one should use them to obtain valid results. Our findings indicate that removing outliers does not have much impact on the results and that we should compare representations with the same number of elements. We applied these methods for ResNet, VGG19, and ViT architectures and found substantial differences along with some similarities. Additionally, we determined that models with similar architecture tend to have a similar topology of representations and models with a larger number of layers change their topology more smoothly. Furthermore, we found that the topology of pre-trained and finetuned models starts to differ in the middle and final layers while remaining quite similar in the initial layers. These findings demonstrate the efficacy of TDA in the analysis of neural network behavior.

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