Simple Mechanisms for Representing, Indexing and Manipulating Concepts

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Yuanzhi, Meka, Raghu, Panigrahy, Rina, Shah, Kulin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866917192080031744
author Li, Yuanzhi
Meka, Raghu
Panigrahy, Rina
Shah, Kulin
author_facet Li, Yuanzhi
Meka, Raghu
Panigrahy, Rina
Shah, Kulin
contents Supervised and unsupervised learning using deep neural networks typically aims to exploit the underlying structure in the training data; this structure is often explained using a latent generative process that produces the data, and the generative process is often hierarchical, involving latent concepts. Despite the significant work on understanding the learning of the latent structure and underlying concepts using theory and experiments, a framework that mathematically captures the definition of a concept and provides ways to operate on concepts is missing. In this work, we propose to characterize a simple primitive concept by the zero set of a collection of polynomials and use moment statistics of the data to uniquely represent the concepts; we show how this view can be used to obtain a signature of the concept. These signatures can be used to discover a common structure across the set of concepts and could recursively produce the signature of higher-level concepts from the signatures of lower-level concepts. To utilize such desired properties, we propose a method by keeping a dictionary of concepts and show that the proposed method can learn different types of hierarchical structures of the data.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2310_12143
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Simple Mechanisms for Representing, Indexing and Manipulating Concepts
Li, Yuanzhi
Meka, Raghu
Panigrahy, Rina
Shah, Kulin
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Supervised and unsupervised learning using deep neural networks typically aims to exploit the underlying structure in the training data; this structure is often explained using a latent generative process that produces the data, and the generative process is often hierarchical, involving latent concepts. Despite the significant work on understanding the learning of the latent structure and underlying concepts using theory and experiments, a framework that mathematically captures the definition of a concept and provides ways to operate on concepts is missing. In this work, we propose to characterize a simple primitive concept by the zero set of a collection of polynomials and use moment statistics of the data to uniquely represent the concepts; we show how this view can be used to obtain a signature of the concept. These signatures can be used to discover a common structure across the set of concepts and could recursively produce the signature of higher-level concepts from the signatures of lower-level concepts. To utilize such desired properties, we propose a method by keeping a dictionary of concepts and show that the proposed method can learn different types of hierarchical structures of the data.
title Simple Mechanisms for Representing, Indexing and Manipulating Concepts
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12143