Deep neural network models have been proven to be very successful in image classification tasks, also for medical diagnosis, but their main concern is its lack of interpretability. They use to work as intuition machines with high statistical confidence but unable to give interpretable explanations about the reported results. The vast amount of parameters of these models make difficult to infer a rationale interpretation from them. In this paper we present a diabetic retinopathy interpretable classifier able to classify retine images into the different levels of disease severity and of explaining its results by assigning a score for every point in the hidden and input space, evaluating its contribution to the final classification in a linear way. The generated visual maps can be interpreted by an expert in order to compare its own knowledge with the interpretation given by the model. Keywords: deep learning, classification, explanations, diabetic retinopathy, model interpretation 2010 MSC: 68T10 1. Introduction Deep Learning methods have been used extensively in the last years for many automatic classification tasks. For the case of image analysis, the usual procedure consists on extracting the important features with a set of convolutional layers and, after that, make a final classification with these features using a set of fully connected layers. Finally, a soft-max output layer gives as a result the predicted output probabilities of the set of classes predefined in the model. Once the classifier has been trained (i.e. the parameters of the different layers of the model have been fixed), the quality of the classification outputs predicted is compared against the correct "true" values stored on a labeled dataset. This data is considered as the gold standard, ideally coming from the consensus of the knowledge of a human experts committee. This mapping allows the classification of multidimensional objects into a small number of categories. The model is composed by many neurons that are organized in layers and blocks of layers, piled together in a hierarchical way.

The problem of predicting the location of users on large social networks like Twitter has emerged from real-life applications such as social unrest detection and online marketing. Twitter user geolocation is a difficult and active research topic with a vast literature. Most of the proposed methods follow either a content-based or a network-based approach. The former exploits user-generated content while the latter utilizes the connection or interaction between Twitter users. In this paper, we introduce a novel method combining the strength of both approaches. Concretely, we propose a multi-entry neural network architecture named MENET leveraging the advances in deep learning and multiview learning. The generalizability of MENET enables the integration of multiple data representations. In the context of Twitter user geolocation, we realize MENET with textual, network, and metadata features. Considering the natural distribution of Twitter users across the concerned geographical area, we subdivide the surface of the earth into multi-scale cells and train MENET with the labels of the cells. We show that our method outperforms the state of the art by a large margin on three benchmark datasets.

Automatically writing stylized Chinese characters is an attractive yet challenging task due to its wide applicabilities. In this paper, we propose a novel framework named Style-Aware Variational Auto-Encoder (SA-VAE) to flexibly generate Chinese characters. Specifically, we propose to capture the different characteristics of a Chinese character by disentangling the latent features into content-related and style-related components. Considering of the complex shapes and structures, we incorporate the structure information as prior knowledge into our framework to guide the generation. Our framework shows a powerful one-shot/low-shot generalization ability by inferring the style component given a character with unseen style. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to learn to write new-style Chinese characters by observing only one or a few examples. Extensive experiments demonstrate its effectiveness in generating different stylized Chinese characters by fusing the feature vectors corresponding to different contents and styles, which is of significant importance in real-world applications.

Deep generative neural networks have proven effective at both conditional and unconditional modeling of complex data distributions. Conditional generation enables interactive control, but creating new controls often requires expensive retraining. In this paper, we develop a method to condition generation without retraining the model. By post-hoc learning latent constraints, value functions that identify regions in latent space that generate outputs with desired attributes, we can conditionally sample from these regions with gradient-based optimization or amortized actor functions. Combining attribute constraints with a universal "realism" constraint, which enforces similarity to the data distribution, we generate realistic conditional images from an unconditional variational autoencoder. Further, using gradient-based optimization, we demonstrate identity-preserving transformations that make the minimal adjustment in latent space to modify the attributes of an image. Finally, with discrete sequences of musical notes, we demonstrate zero-shot conditional generation, learning latent constraints in the absence of labeled data or a differentiable reward function. Code with dedicated cloud instance has been made publicly available (https://goo.gl/STGMGx).

This paper proposes CuRTAIL, an end-to-end computing framework for characterizing and thwarting adversarial space in the context of Deep Learning (DL). The framework protects deep neural networks against adversarial samples, which are perturbed inputs carefully crafted by malicious entities to mislead the underlying DL model. The precursor for the proposed methodology is a set of new quantitative metrics to assess the vulnerability of various deep learning architectures to adversarial samples. CuRTAIL formalizes the goal of preventing adversarial samples as a minimization of the space unexplored by the pertinent DL model that is characterized in CuRTAIL vulnerability analysis step. To thwart the adversarial machine learning attack, CuRTAIL introduces the concept of Modular Robust Redundancy (MRR) as a viable solution to achieve the formalized minimization objective. The MRR methodology explicitly characterizes the geometry of the input data and the DL model parameters. It then learns a set of complementary but disjoint models which maximally cover the unexplored subspaces of the target DL model, thus reducing the risk of integrity attacks. We extensively evaluate CuRTAIL performance against the state-of-the-art attack models including fast-sign-gradient, Jacobian Saliency Map Attack, Deepfool, and Carlini&WagnerL2. Proof-of-concept implementations for analyzing various data collections including MNIST, CIFAR10, and ImageNet corroborate CuRTAIL effectiveness to detect adversarial samples in different settings. The computations in each MRR module can be performed independently. As such, CuRTAIL detection algorithm can be completely parallelized among multiple hardware settings to achieve maximum throughput. We further provide an accompanying API to facilitate the adoption of the proposed framework for various applications.

Modeling the structure of coherent texts is a key NLP problem. The task of coherently organizing a given set of sentences has been commonly used to build and evaluate models that understand such structure. We propose an end-to-end unsupervised deep learning approach based on the set-to-sequence framework to address this problem. Our model strongly outperforms prior methods in the order discrimination task and a novel task of ordering abstracts from scientific articles. Furthermore, our work shows that useful text representations can be obtained by learning to order sentences. Visualizing the learned sentence representations shows that the model captures high-level logical structure in paragraphs. Our representations perform comparably to state-of-the-art pre-training methods on sentence similarity and paraphrase detection tasks.

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I like the DenseNets paper a lot. Regardless of what you think of the architecture (I've seen a great deal of seemingly irrational hatred for DenseNets around here, and while I don't think it's the end-all be-all architecture, I'll gladly argue its case) the paper is straightforward, easy to read, and an excellent modern reference for a lot of the quirks of CNN design. It's not explicitly a CNN paper but SVCCA is one of my favorite deep net papers this year and probably in my top 3 from NIPS17. It presents an interesting way to analyze representations in intermediate layers, and while I don't think it's the ultimately best way to do so (or, rather, the last stop on this research train) the intuition behind the technique's design are top-notch. I think this paper deserves a lot more attention than it's received thus far. Convolutional Neural Fabrics has a really interesting approach to network design.

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Until now, the only sequence data we've covered has been text data, such as the IMDB dataset and the Reuters dataset. But sequence data is found in many more problems than just language processing. In all the examples in this section, you'll play with a weather timeseries dataset recorded at the Weather Station at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany. In this dataset, 14 different quantities (such air temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind direction, and so on) were recorded every 10 minutes, over several years. The original data goes back to 2003, but this example is limited to data from 2009–2016.