Exploring Information-Theoretic Metrics Associated with Neural Collapse in Supervised Training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16767v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:26:06 GMT
• Title: Exploring Information-Theoretic Metrics Associated with Neural Collapse in Supervised Training
• Authors: Kun Song, Zhiquan Tan, Bochao Zou, Jiansheng Chen, Huimin Ma, Weiran Huang,
• Abstract summary: We utilize information-theoretic metrics like matrix entropy and mutual information to analyze supervised learning. We show that matrix entropy cannot solely describe the interaction of the information content of data representation and classification head weights but it can effectively reflect the similarity and clustering behavior of the data.
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• Abstract: In this paper, we utilize information-theoretic metrics like matrix entropy and mutual information to analyze supervised learning. We explore the information content of data representations and classification head weights and their information interplay during supervised training. Experiments show that matrix entropy cannot solely describe the interaction of the information content of data representation and classification head weights but it can effectively reflect the similarity and clustering behavior of the data. Inspired by this, we propose a cross-modal alignment loss to improve the alignment between the representations of the same class from different modalities. Moreover, in order to assess the interaction of the information content of data representation and classification head weights more accurately, we utilize new metrics like matrix mutual information ratio (MIR) and matrix information entropy difference ratio (HDR). Through theory and experiment, we show that HDR and MIR can not only effectively describe the information interplay of supervised training but also improve the performance of supervised and semi-supervised learning.

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