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Understanding Neural Networks via Feature Visualization: A survey

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arxiv 1904.08939 v1 pith:S5I7EQB2 submitted 2019-04-18 cs.LG cs.AIcs.CVstat.ML

classification cs.LGcs.AIcs.CVstat.ML
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A neuroscience method to understanding the brain is to find and study the preferred stimuli that highly activate an individual cell or groups of cells. Recent advances in machine learning enable a family of methods to synthesize preferred stimuli that cause a neuron in an artificial or biological brain to fire strongly. Those methods are known as Activation Maximization (AM) or Feature Visualization via Optimization. In this chapter, we (1) review existing AM techniques in the literature; (2) discuss a probabilistic interpretation for AM; and (3) review the applications of AM in debugging and explaining networks.

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