Deep Neural Networks Rival the Representation of Primate IT Cortex for Core Visual Object Recognition

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العنوان: Deep Neural Networks Rival the Representation of Primate IT Cortex for Core Visual Object Recognition
المؤلفون: Cadieu, Charles F., Hong, Ha, Yamins, Daniel L. K., Pinto, Nicolas, Ardila, Diego, Solomon, Ethan A., Majaj, Najib J., DiCarlo, James J.
سنة النشر: 2014
المجموعة: Computer Science
Quantitative Biology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantitative Biology - Neurons and Cognition, Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing
الوصف: The primate visual system achieves remarkable visual object recognition performance even in brief presentations and under changes to object exemplar, geometric transformations, and background variation (a.k.a. core visual object recognition). This remarkable performance is mediated by the representation formed in inferior temporal (IT) cortex. In parallel, recent advances in machine learning have led to ever higher performing models of object recognition using artificial deep neural networks (DNNs). It remains unclear, however, whether the representational performance of DNNs rivals that of the brain. To accurately produce such a comparison, a major difficulty has been a unifying metric that accounts for experimental limitations such as the amount of noise, the number of neural recording sites, and the number trials, and computational limitations such as the complexity of the decoding classifier and the number of classifier training examples. In this work we perform a direct comparison that corrects for these experimental limitations and computational considerations. As part of our methodology, we propose an extension of "kernel analysis" that measures the generalization accuracy as a function of representational complexity. Our evaluations show that, unlike previous bio-inspired models, the latest DNNs rival the representational performance of IT cortex on this visual object recognition task. Furthermore, we show that models that perform well on measures of representational performance also perform well on measures of representational similarity to IT and on measures of predicting individual IT multi-unit responses. Whether these DNNs rely on computational mechanisms similar to the primate visual system is yet to be determined, but, unlike all previous bio-inspired models, that possibility cannot be ruled out merely on representational performance grounds.
Comment: 35 pages, 12 figures, extends and expands upon arXiv:1301.3530
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003963
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3284
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1406.3284
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003963