Neural network optimization with biologically inspired low-dimensional manifold learning

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Chin, Sang
Le, Hieu
Wood, Andrew
Dandekar, Sylee
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S. Chin, H. Le, A. Wood, S. Dandaker. "Neural Network Optimization with Biologically Inspired Low-Dimensional Manifold Learning,." International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, 2021.
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Neural Networks learn to recognize and leverage patterns in data. In most cases, while data is represented in a high-dimensional space, the patterns within the data exist along a manifold in a small subset of those dimensions. In this paper, we show that by using a biologically inspired algorithm called Geometric Multi-Resolution Analysis (GMRA), these low dimensional manifolds can be computed and can be used to convert datasets into more useful forms for learning. We also show that, thanks to the lower-dimensional representation of the converted datasets, that smaller networks can achieve state-of-the-art performance while using significantly fewer parameters.
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