Fred Hohman

NeuralDivergence: Exploring and Understanding Neural Networks by Comparing Activation Distributions

Poster, IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2019

Abstract

As deep neural networks are increasingly used in solving highstake problems, there is a pressing need to understand their internal decision mechanisms. Visualization has helped address this problem by assisting with interpreting complex deep neural networks. However, current tools often support only single data instances, or visualize layers in isolation. We present NeuralDivergence, an interactive visualization system that uses activation distributions as a high-level summary of what a model has learned. NeuralDivergence enables users to interactively summarize and compare activation distributions across layers, classes, and instances (e.g., pairs of adversarial attacked and benign images), helping them gain better understanding of neural network models.

BibTeX

			
@inproceedings{park2019neuraldivergence,
  title={NeuralDivergence: Exploring and Understanding Neural Networks by Comparing Activation Distributions},
  author={Park, Haekyu and Hohman, Fred and Chau, Duen Horng},
  booktitle={Poster, Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)},
  year={2019},
  publisher={IEEE},
  url={http://haekyu.com/neural-divergence/}
}