THE LOCAL DIMENSION OF DEEP MANIFOLD
Based on our observation that there exists a dramatic drop for the singular values of the fully connected layers or a single feature map of the convolutional layer, and that the dimension of the concatenated feature vector almost equals the summation of the dimension on each feature map, we propose a singular value decomposition (SVD) based approach to estimate the dimension of the deep manifolds for a typical convolutional neural network VGG19. We choose three categories from the ImageNet, namely Persian Cat, Container Ship and Volcano, and determine the local dimension of the deep manifolds of the deep layers through the tangent space of a target image. Through several augmentation methods, we found that the Gaussian noise method is closer to the intrinsic dimension, as by adding random noise to an image we are moving in an arbitrary dimension, and when the rank of the feature matrix of the augmented images does not increase we are very close to the local dimension of the manifold. We also estimate the dimension of the deep manifold based on the tangent space for each of the maxpooling layers. Our results show that the dimensions of different categories are close to each other and decline quickly along the convolutional layers and fully connected layers. Furthermore, we show that the dimensions decline quickly inside the Conv5 layer. Our work provides new insights for the intrinsic structure of deep neural networks and helps unveiling the inner organization of the black box of deep neural networks.
 This paper gives an empirical estimation of the intrinsic dimensionality of the convolutional neural network VGG19 due to Simonyan and Zisserman. To estimate the ID, the authors apply singular value decomposition to the matrix of activation vectors at each of the layers of the network, in which the intrinsic dimension is determined (in a more or less standard way) by the rank at which two consecutive singular values has a ratio exceeding some threshold. For the convolutional layers of VGG19, they observe that the sum of IDs for each feature map is roughly equal to the ID of the matrix formed by concatenating the vectors over all feature maps. They also observe that the ID drops with each successive layer. The authors* findings are intuitively obvious, and certainly not surprising. Although a thorough and careful empirical investigation of this phenomenon would be a welcome addition to the research literature, this paper does not yet reach this standard. First and foremost, a result for a single neural network does not constitute enough evidence to justify the authors* conclusions. Second, the latter half of the paper is concerned with details of the experimental results, without offering any insights as to the implications for deep learning. Third, the paper is not well presented and organized: the introduction is scant; the notational formulism is not at all clear, rigorous, or consistent; the paper overall lacks polish, with many grammatical errors. Overall, I feel that while this line of research is worthwhile, at this stage the work is not yet ready for publication.
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THE LOCAL DIMENSION OF DEEP MANIFOLD
Based on our observation that there exists a dramatic drop for the singular values of the fully connected layers or a single feature map of the convolutional layer, and that the dimension of the concatenated feature vector almost equals the summation of the dimension on each feature map, we propose a singular value decomposition (SVD) based approach to estimate the dimension of the deep manifolds for a typical convolutional neural network VGG19. We choose three categories from the ImageNet, namely Persian Cat, Container Ship and Volcano, and determine the local dimension of the deep manifolds of the deep layers through the tangent space of a target image. Through several augmentation methods, we found that the Gaussian noise method is closer to the intrinsic dimension, as by adding random noise to an image we are moving in an arbitrary dimension, and when the rank of the feature matrix of the augmented images does not increase we are very close to the local dimension of the manifold. We also estimate the dimension of the deep manifold based on the tangent space for each of the maxpooling layers. Our results show that the dimensions of different categories are close to each other and decline quickly along the convolutional layers and fully connected layers. Furthermore, we show that the dimensions decline quickly inside the Conv5 layer. Our work provides new insights for the intrinsic structure of deep neural networks and helps unveiling the inner organization of the black box of deep neural networks.
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 This paper gives an empirical estimation of the intrinsic dimensionality of the convolutional neural network VGG19 due to Simonyan and Zisserman. To estimate the ID, the authors apply singular value decomposition to the matrix of activation vectors at each of the layers of the network, in which the intrinsic dimension is determined (in a more or less standard way) by the rank at which two consecutive singular values has a ratio exceeding some threshold. For the convolutional layers of VGG19, they observe that the sum of IDs for each feature map is roughly equal to the ID of the matrix formed by concatenating the vectors over all feature maps. They also observe that the ID drops with each successive layer. The authors* findings are intuitively obvious, and certainly not surprising. Although a thorough and careful empirical investigation of this phenomenon would be a welcome addition to the research literature, this paper does not yet reach this standard. First and foremost, a result for a single neural network does not constitute enough evidence to justify the authors* conclusions. Second, the latter half of the paper is concerned with details of the experimental results, without offering any insights as to the implications for deep learning. Third, the paper is not well presented and organized: the introduction is scant; the notational formulism is not at all clear, rigorous, or consistent; the paper overall lacks polish, with many grammatical errors. Overall, I feel that while this line of research is worthwhile, at this stage the work is not yet ready for publication.
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 This paper gives an empirical estimation of the intrinsic dimensionality of the convolutional neural network VGG19 due to Simonyan and Zisserman. To estimate the ID, the authors apply singular value decomposition to the matrix of activation vectors at each of the layers of the network, in which the intrinsic dimension is determined (in a more or less standard way) by the rank at which two consecutive singular values has a ratio exceeding some threshold. For the convolutional layers of VGG19, they observe that the sum of IDs for each feature map is roughly equal to the ID of the matrix formed by concatenating the vectors over all feature maps. They also observe that the ID drops with each successive layer. The authors* findings are intuitively obvious, and certainly not surprising. Although a thorough and careful empirical investigation of this phenomenon would be a welcome addition to the research literature, this paper does not yet reach this standard. First and foremost, a result for a single neural network does not constitute enough evidence to justify the authors* conclusions. Second, the latter half of the paper is concerned with details of the experimental results, without offering any insights as to the implications for deep learning. Third, the paper is not well presented and organized: the introduction is scant; the notational formulism is not at all clear, rigorous, or consistent; the paper overall lacks polish, with many grammatical errors. Overall, I feel that while this line of research is worthwhile, at this stage the work is not yet ready for publication.