
arXiv: 2012.01118
In this paper, we explore a process called neural teleportation, a mathematical consequence of applying quiver representation theory to neural networks. Neural teleportation teleports a network to a new position in the weight space and preserves its function. This phenomenon comes directly from the definitions of representation theory applied to neural networks and it turns out to be a very simple operation that has remarkable properties. We shed light on the surprising and counter-intuitive consequences neural teleportation has on the loss landscape. In particular, we show that teleportation can be used to explore loss level curves, that it changes the local loss landscape, sharpens global minima and boosts back-propagated gradients at any moment during the learning process.
teleportation, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, quiver representations, Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing, neural networks, Machine Learning (cs.LG), QA1-939, Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE), Mathematics
teleportation, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, quiver representations, Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing, neural networks, Machine Learning (cs.LG), QA1-939, Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE), Mathematics
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