Geometric Inductive Biases of Deep Networks: The Role of Data and Architecture

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12025v2
• Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:20:56 GMT
• Title: Geometric Inductive Biases of Deep Networks: The Role of Data and Architecture
• Authors: Sajad Movahedi, Antonio Orvieto, Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli,
• Abstract summary: We show that the input space curvature of a neural network remains invariant.<n>We also present experimental results to observe the consequences of GIH.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we propose the $\textit{geometric invariance hypothesis (GIH)}$, which argues that the input space curvature of a neural network remains invariant under transformation in certain architecture-dependent directions during training. We investigate a simple, non-linear binary classification problem residing on a plane in a high dimensional space and observe that$\unicode{x2014}$unlike MPLs$\unicode{x2014}$ResNets fail to generalize depending on the orientation of the plane. Motivated by this example, we define a neural network's $\textbf{average geometry}$ and $\textbf{average geometry evolution}$ as compact $\textit{architecture-dependent}$ summaries of the model's input-output geometry and its evolution during training. By investigating the average geometry evolution at initialization, we discover that the geometry of a neural network evolves according to the data covariance projected onto its average geometry. This means that the geometry only changes in a subset of the input space when the average geometry is low-rank, such as in ResNets. This causes an architecture-dependent invariance property in the input space curvature, which we dub GIH. Finally, we present extensive experimental results to observe the consequences of GIH and how it relates to generalization in neural networks.

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