NFT-K: NON-FUNGIBLE TANGENT KERNELS

Sina Alemohammad, Hossein Babaei, C. J. Barberan, Naiming Liu, Lorenzo Luzi, Blake Mason, Richard G. Baraniuk

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Abstract

Deep neural networks have become essential for numerous applications due to their strong empirical performance such as vision, RL, and classification. Unfortunately, these networks are quite difficult to interpret, and this limits their applicability in settings where interpretability is important for safety, such as medical imaging. One type of deep neural network is neural tangent kernel that is similar to a kernel machine that provides some aspect of interpretability. To further contribute interpretability with respect to classification and the layers, we develop a new network as a combination of multiple neural tangent kernels, one to model each layer of the deep neural network individually as opposed to past work which attempts to represent the entire network via a single neural tangent kernel. We demonstrate the interpretability of this model on two datasets, showing that the multiple kernels model elucidates the interplay between the layers and predictions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3798-3802
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665405409
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Virtual, Online, Singapore
Duration: May 23 2022May 27 2022

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/23/225/27/22

Keywords

  • Deep neural network
  • interpretability
  • multi-layer perception
  • neural tangent kernel

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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