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Inner Product-based Neural Network Similarity
Analyzing representational similarity among neural networks (NNs) is essential for interpreting or transferring deep models. In application scenarios where numerous NN models are learned, it becomes crucial to assess model similarities in computationally efficient ways. In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for reducing NN representational similarity to filter subspace distance. Specifically, when convolutional filters are decomposed as a linear combination of a set of filter subspace elements, denoted as filter atoms, and have those decomposed atom coefficients shared across networks, NN representational similarity can be significantly simplified as calculating the cosine distance among respective filter atoms, to achieve millions of times computation reduction over popular probing-based methods. We provide both theoretical and empirical evidence that such simplified filter subspace-based similarity preserves a strong linear correlation with other popular probing-based metrics, while being significantly more efficient to obtain and robust to probing data. We further validate the effectiveness of the proposed method in various application scenarios where numerous models exist, such as federated and continual learning as well as analyzing training dynamics. We hope our findings can help further explorations of real-time large-scale representational similarity analysis in neural networks.
A Appendix 483 A.1 Theoretical Proofs
Proposition A.2. Assume filter atoms D Theorem A.4. Suppose the forward of decomposed convolution layer for the According to Lemma A.5, we have, Based on Lemma A.5, we have, Based on Lemma A.7, we have, Theorem A.9. Suppose the forward of decomposed convolution layer for the As Assumption 2.6 holds, it becomes As shown in Table 3, our method achieves comparable performance among different methods. The fully-connected layer of each model is fine-tuned on the user's local data with 100 The fine-tuning takes about 12 hours on Nvidia RTX A5000. All the points are below the line which is the bound provided by Proposition 2.1, reflecting that the Figure 6: The shared coefficients and user-specific atoms represent common knowledge and personalized information. The filter subspace similarity is used to calculate the relations among users. And the correlation can reach 0.985 with CIFAR-100) are similar among themselves, but they differ from untrained models.
Inner Product-based Neural Network Similarity
Analyzing representational similarity among neural networks (NNs) is essential for interpreting or transferring deep models. In application scenarios where numerous NN models are learned, it becomes crucial to assess model similarities in computationally efficient ways. In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for reducing NN representational similarity to filter subspace distance.
Appendix A Proof of Theorem 2
Recall the operation in the i -th layer, i.e., the function F We introduce additional descriptions on the datasets with regression labels. All images are resized to 256x256 in both training and testing times. All images are resized to 256x256 in both training and testing times. Note that when training CycleGAN, only the first sub-group is adopted as a source domain, and the rest of the groups are all blended together as a target domain. For each population, we used 100 different cell images for training and testing.
Extra Clients at No Extra Cost: Overcome Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning with Filter Decomposition
Data heterogeneity is one of the major challenges in federated learning (FL), which results in substantial client variance and slow convergence. In this study, we propose a novel solution: decomposing a convolutional filter in FL into a linear combination of filter subspace elements, i.e., filter atoms. This simple technique transforms global filter aggregation in FL into aggregating filter atoms and their atom coefficients. The key advantage here involves mathematically generating numerous cross-terms by expanding the product of two weighted sums from filter atom and atom coefficient. These cross-terms effectively emulate many additional latent clients, significantly reducing model variance, which is validated by our theoretical analysis and empirical observation. Furthermore, our method permits different training schemes for filter atoms and atom coefficients for highly adaptive model personalization and communication efficiency. Empirical results on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our filter decomposition technique substantially improves the accuracy of FL methods, confirming its efficacy in addressing data heterogeneity.
Inner Product-based Neural Network Similarity
Analyzing representational similarity among neural networks (NNs) is essential for interpreting or transferring deep models. In application scenarios where numerous NN models are learned, it becomes crucial to assess model similarities in computationally efficient ways. In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for reducing NN representational similarity to filter subspace distance. Specifically, when convolutional filters are decomposed as a linear combination of a set of filter subspace elements, denoted as filter atoms, and have those decomposed atom coefficients shared across networks, NN representational similarity can be significantly simplified as calculating the cosine distance among respective filter atoms, to achieve millions of times computation reduction over popular probing-based methods. We provide both theoretical and empirical evidence that such simplified filter subspace-based similarity preserves a strong linear correlation with other popular probing-based metrics, while being significantly more efficient to obtain and robust to probing data.
Generative Quanta Color Imaging
Purohit, Vishal, Luo, Junjie, Chi, Yiheng, Guo, Qi, Chan, Stanley H., Qiu, Qiang
The astonishing development of single-photon cameras has created an unprecedented opportunity for scientific and industrial imaging. However, the high data throughput generated by these 1-bit sensors creates a significant bottleneck for low-power applications. In this paper, we explore the possibility of generating a color image from a single binary frame of a single-photon camera. We evidently find this problem being particularly difficult to standard colorization approaches due to the substantial degree of exposure variation. The core innovation of our paper is an exposure synthesis model framed under a neural ordinary differential equation (Neural ODE) that allows us to generate a continuum of exposures from a single observation. This innovation ensures consistent exposure in binary images that colorizers take on, resulting in notably enhanced colorization. We demonstrate applications of the method in single-image and burst colorization and show superior generative performance over baselines. Project website can be found at https://vishal-s-p.github.io/projects/2023/generative_quanta_color.html.