<p>Current work on human-machine alignment aims at understanding machine-learned latent spaces and their relations to human representations. We study the convexity of concept regions in machine-learned latent spaces, inspired by Gärdenfors’ conceptual spaces. In cognitive science, convexity is found to support generalization, few-shot learning, and interpersonal alignment. We develop tools to measure convexity in sampled data and evaluate it across layers of state-of-the-art deep networks. We show that convexity is robust to relevant latent space transformations and, hence, meaningful as a quality of machine-learned latent spaces. We find pervasive approximate convexity across domains, including image, text, audio, human activity, and medical data. Fine-tuning generally increases convexity, and the level of convexity of class label regions in pretrained models predicts subsequent fine-tuning performance. Our framework allows investigation of layered latent representations and offers new insights into learning mechanisms, human-machine alignment, and potential improvements in model generalization.</p>

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On convex decision regions in deep network representations

  • Lenka Tětková,
  • Thea Brüsch,
  • Teresa Dorszewski,
  • Fabian Martin Mager,
  • Rasmus Ørtoft Aagaard,
  • Jonathan Foldager,
  • Tommy Sonne Alstrøm,
  • Lars Kai Hansen

摘要

Current work on human-machine alignment aims at understanding machine-learned latent spaces and their relations to human representations. We study the convexity of concept regions in machine-learned latent spaces, inspired by Gärdenfors’ conceptual spaces. In cognitive science, convexity is found to support generalization, few-shot learning, and interpersonal alignment. We develop tools to measure convexity in sampled data and evaluate it across layers of state-of-the-art deep networks. We show that convexity is robust to relevant latent space transformations and, hence, meaningful as a quality of machine-learned latent spaces. We find pervasive approximate convexity across domains, including image, text, audio, human activity, and medical data. Fine-tuning generally increases convexity, and the level of convexity of class label regions in pretrained models predicts subsequent fine-tuning performance. Our framework allows investigation of layered latent representations and offers new insights into learning mechanisms, human-machine alignment, and potential improvements in model generalization.