Event

What is abstraction?

Date

Thursday, June 13, 2024
11:00 - 12:00

Abstract

Deep neural networks develop representations of the data they are trained with, with a level of abstraction that increases with depth, in a similar way as our brain does. But what is abstraction? Abstraction is qualitatively assessed by looking at the features of the data to which internal nodes respond to. Can the level of abstraction be quantified in terms of the statistical properties of the activity of internal nodes without reference to what is represented (i.e. the data)? We address these questions analysing the internal representation of deep belief networks trained on benchmark datasets.

Organiser

Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena (DIEP)

Venue

IAS second floor library room

Room number

2nd floor library

Category

Group Seminar

Topics

biophysics, complexity, condensed matter theory, emergence, soft matter

Speakers

Matteo Marsili

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