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On the space of coefficients of a Feed Forward Neural Network

Machine Learning 2021-09-09 v1 Neural and Evolutionary Computing

Abstract

We define and establish the conditions for `equivalent neural networks' - neural networks with different weights, biases, and threshold functions that result in the same associated function. We prove that given a neural network N\mathcal{N} with piece-wise linear activation, the space of coefficients describing all equivalent neural networks is given by a semialgebraic set. This result is obtained by studying different representations of a given piece-wise linear function using the Tarski-Seidenberg theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2109.03362,
  title  = {On the space of coefficients of a Feed Forward Neural Network},
  author = {Dinesh Valluri and Rory Campbell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.03362},
  year   = {2021}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures