Outline. ♢ Brains. ♢ Neural networks. ♢ Perceptrons. ♢ Multilayer perceptrons. ♢
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Neural networks
Chapter 20, Section 5
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Outline ♦ Brains ♦ Neural networks ♦ Perceptrons ♦ Multilayer perceptrons ♦ Applications of neural networks
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Brains 1011 neurons of > 20 types, 1014 synapses, 1ms–10ms cycle time Signals are noisy “spike trains” of electrical potential
Axonal arborization Axon from another cell Synapse Dendrite
Axon
Nucleus Synapses
Cell body or Soma
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McCulloch–Pitts “unit” Output is a “squashed” linear function of the inputs: ai ← g(ini) = g Σj Wj,iaj
a0 = −1
aj
Bias Weight
ai = g(ini)
W0,i Wj,i
Input Links
ini
g
Σ
Input Activation Function Function
ai
Output
Output Links
A gross oversimplification of real neurons, but its purpose is to develop understanding of what networks of simple units can do
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Activation functions g(ini)
g(ini)
+1
+1
ini
ini
(a)
(b)
(a) is a step function or threshold function (b) is a sigmoid function 1/(1 + e−x) Changing the bias weight W0,i moves the threshold location
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Implementing logical functions W0 = 1.5
W0 = 0.5
W1 = 1
W0 = – 0.5
W1 = 1
W2 = 1
W1 = –1
W2 = 1 AND
OR
NOT
McCulloch and Pitts: every Boolean function can be implemented
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Network structures Feed-forward networks: – single-layer perceptrons – multi-layer perceptrons Feed-forward networks implement functions, have no internal state Recurrent networks: – Hopfield networks have symmetric weights (Wi,j = Wj,i) g(x) = sign(x), ai = ± 1; holographic associative memory – Boltzmann machines use stochastic activation functions, ≈ MCMC in Bayes nets – recurrent neural nets have directed cycles with delays ⇒ have internal state (like flip-flops), can oscillate etc.
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Feed-forward example
1
W1,3
3
W1,4
W3,5 5
W2,3 2
W2,4
4
W4,5
Feed-forward network = a parameterized family of nonlinear functions: a5 = g(W3,5 · a3 + W4,5 · a4) = g(W3,5 · g(W1,3 · a1 + W2,3 · a2) + W4,5 · g(W1,4 · a1 + W2,4 · a2)) Adjusting weights changes the function: do learning this way! Chapter 20, Section 5
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Single-layer perceptrons
Input Units
Wj,i
Output Units
Perceptron output 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 -4 -2 0 x1
2
4
-4
4 2 0 x2 -2
Output units all operate separately—no shared weights Adjusting weights moves the location, orientation, and steepness of cliff
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Expressiveness of perceptrons Consider a perceptron with g = step function (Rosenblatt, 1957, 1960) Can represent AND, OR, NOT, majority, etc., but not XOR Represents a linear separator in input space:
Σj Wj xj > 0 or W · x > 0 x1
x1
x1
1
1
1
? 0 0
1 (a) x1 and x2
x2
0 0
1 (b) x1 or x2
x2
0 0
1
x2
(c) x1 xor x2
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Perceptron learning Learn by adjusting weights to reduce error on training set The squared error for an example with input x and true output y is 1 1 2 E = Err ≡ (y − hW(x))2 , 2 2 Perform optimization search by gradient descent: ∂Err ∂ ∂E n = Err × = Err × y − g(Σj = 0Wj xj ) ∂Wj ∂Wj ∂Wj = −Err × g 0(in) × xj
Simple weight update rule: Wj ← Wj + α × Err × g 0(in) × xj E.g., +ve error ⇒ increase network output ⇒ increase weights on +ve inputs, decrease on -ve inputs Chapter 20, Section 5
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Perceptron learning contd.
1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5
Perceptron Decision tree
0.4 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Training set size - MAJORITY on 11 inputs
Proportion correct on test set
Proportion correct on test set
Perceptron learning rule converges to a consistent function for any linearly separable data set 1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4
Perceptron Decision tree 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Training set size - RESTAURANT data
Perceptron learns majority function easily, DTL is hopeless DTL learns restaurant function easily, perceptron cannot represent it
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Multilayer perceptrons Layers are usually fully connected; numbers of hidden units typically chosen by hand Output units
ai
Wj,i
Hidden units
aj
Wk,j
Input units
ak
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Expressiveness of MLPs All continuous functions w/ 2 layers, all functions w/ 3 layers
hW(x1, x2) 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 -4 -2 x1
0
2
4
-4
4 2 0 x2 -2
hW(x1, x2) 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 -4 -2 x1
0
2
4
-4
4 2 0 x2 -2
Combine two opposite-facing threshold functions to make a ridge Combine two perpendicular ridges to make a bump Add bumps of various sizes and locations to fit any surface Proof requires exponentially many hidden units (cf DTL proof) Chapter 20, Section 5
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Back-propagation learning Output layer: same as for single-layer perceptron, Wj,i ← Wj,i + α × aj × ∆i where ∆i = Err i × g 0(in i) Hidden layer: back-propagate the error from the output layer: ∆j = g 0(in j )
X
i
Wj,i∆i .
Update rule for weights in hidden layer: Wk,j ← Wk,j + α × ak × ∆j . (Most neuroscientists deny that back-propagation occurs in the brain)
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Back-propagation derivation The squared error on a single example is defined as E=
1X (yi − ai)2 , 2 i
where the sum is over the nodes in the output layer. ∂ai ∂g(in i) ∂E = −(yi − ai) = −(yi − ai) ∂Wj,i ∂Wj,i ∂Wj,i ∂in ∂ X i = −(yi − ai)g 0(in i) = −(yi − ai)g 0(in i) Wj,iaj ∂Wj,i ∂Wj,i j = −(yi − ai)g 0(in i)aj = −aj ∆i
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Back-propagation derivation contd. ∂ai ∂g(in i) ∂E X X = − (yi − ai) = − (yi − ai) i i ∂Wk,j ∂Wk,j ∂Wk,j ∂in ∂ X X i X = − (yi − ai)g 0(in i) = − ∆i Wj,iaj i i ∂Wk,j ∂Wk,j j ∂aj ∂g(in j ) X X = − ∆iWj,i = − ∆iWj,i i i ∂Wk,j ∂Wk,j ∂in j X = − ∆iWj,ig 0(in j ) i ∂Wk,j ∂ X X = − ∆iWj,ig 0(in j ) Wk,j ak i ∂Wk,j k X = − ∆iWj,ig 0(in j )ak = −ak ∆j i
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Back-propagation learning contd. At each epoch, sum gradient updates for all examples and apply Training curve for 100 restaurant examples: finds exact fit Total error on training set
14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 0
50
100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Number of epochs
Typical problems: slow convergence, local minima
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Back-propagation learning contd.
Proportion correct on test set
Learning curve for MLP with 4 hidden units: 1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6
Decision tree Multilayer network
0.5 0.4 0
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Training set size - RESTAURANT data
MLPs are quite good for complex pattern recognition tasks, but resulting hypotheses cannot be understood easily
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Handwritten digit recognition
3-nearest-neighbor = 2.4% error 400–300–10 unit MLP = 1.6% error LeNet: 768–192–30–10 unit MLP = 0.9% error Current best (kernel machines, vision algorithms) ≈ 0.6% error
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Summary Most brains have lots of neurons; each neuron ≈ linear–threshold unit (?) Perceptrons (one-layer networks) insufficiently expressive Multi-layer networks are sufficiently expressive; can be trained by gradient descent, i.e., error back-propagation Many applications: speech, driving, handwriting, fraud detection, etc. Engineering, cognitive modelling, and neural system modelling subfields have largely diverged
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