
arXiv: 2112.12982
The possibility for one to recover the parameters-weights and biases-of a neural network thanks to the knowledge of its function on a subset of the input space can be, depending on the situation, a curse or a blessing. On one hand, recovering the parameters allows for better adversarial attacks and could also disclose sensitive information from the dataset used to construct the network. On the other hand, if the parameters of a network can be recovered, it guarantees the user that the features in the latent spaces can be interpreted. It also provides foundations to obtain formal guarantees on the performances of the network. It is therefore important to characterize the networks whose parameters can be identified and those whose parameters cannot. In this article, we provide a set of conditions on a deep fully-connected feedforward ReLU neural network under which the parameters of the network are uniquely identified-modulo permutation and positive rescaling-from the function it implements on a subset of the input space.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, 330, equivalent parameters, parameter recovery, deep learning, symmetries, Mathematics - Statistics Theory, Machine Learning (stat.ML), Statistics Theory (math.ST), ReLU networks, ACM: G.: Mathematics of Computing, [STAT.ML] Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], 004, Deep Learning, [STAT.ML]Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], [MATH.MATH-ST]Mathematics [math]/Statistics [math.ST], Parameter recovery, Statistics - Machine Learning, Equivalent parameters, FOS: Mathematics, [MATH.MATH-ST] Mathematics [math]/Statistics [math.ST], Symmetries, Artificial neural networks and deep learning
FOS: Computer and information sciences, 330, equivalent parameters, parameter recovery, deep learning, symmetries, Mathematics - Statistics Theory, Machine Learning (stat.ML), Statistics Theory (math.ST), ReLU networks, ACM: G.: Mathematics of Computing, [STAT.ML] Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], 004, Deep Learning, [STAT.ML]Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], [MATH.MATH-ST]Mathematics [math]/Statistics [math.ST], Parameter recovery, Statistics - Machine Learning, Equivalent parameters, FOS: Mathematics, [MATH.MATH-ST] Mathematics [math]/Statistics [math.ST], Symmetries, Artificial neural networks and deep learning
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