Be Persistent: Towards a Unified Solution for Mitigating Shortcuts in Deep Learning

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العنوان: Be Persistent: Towards a Unified Solution for Mitigating Shortcuts in Deep Learning
المؤلفون: Dolatabadi, Hadi M., Erfani, Sarah M., Leckie, Christopher
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
الوصف: Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to shortcut learning: rather than learning the intended task, they tend to draw inconclusive relationships between their inputs and outputs. Shortcut learning is ubiquitous among many failure cases of neural networks, and traces of this phenomenon can be seen in their generalizability issues, domain shift, adversarial vulnerability, and even bias towards majority groups. In this paper, we argue that this commonality in the cause of various DNN issues creates a significant opportunity that should be leveraged to find a unified solution for shortcut learning. To this end, we outline the recent advances in topological data analysis~(TDA), and persistent homology~(PH) in particular, to sketch a unified roadmap for detecting shortcuts in deep learning. We demonstrate our arguments by investigating the topological features of computational graphs in DNNs using two cases of unlearnable examples and bias in decision-making as our test studies. Our analysis of these two failure cases of DNNs reveals that finding a unified solution for shortcut learning in DNNs is not out of reach, and TDA can play a significant role in forming such a framework.
Comment: 16 pages, 14 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11237
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2402.11237
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv