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Applications of Tropical Geometry in Deep Neural Networks

This thesis tackles the problem of understanding deep neural network with piece- wise linear activation functions. We leverage tropical geometry, a relatively new field in algebraic geometry to characterize the decision boundaries of a single hidden layer neural network. This characterization is leveraged to understand, and reformulate three interesting applications related to deep neural network. First, we give a geo- metrical demonstration of the behaviour of the lottery ticket hypothesis. Moreover, we deploy the geometrical characterization of the decision boundaries to reformulate the network pruning problem. This new formulation aims to prune network pa- rameters that are not contributing to the geometrical representation of the decision boundaries. In addition, we propose a dual view of adversarial attack that tackles both designing perturbations to the input image, and the equivalent perturbation to the decision boundaries.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:kaust.edu.sa/oai:repository.kaust.edu.sa:10754/662473
Date04 1900
CreatorsAlfarra, Motasem
ContributorsGhanem, Bernard, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, Heidrich, Wolfgang, Zhang, Xiangliang
Source SetsKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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