Invited Speakers
Hirotada Honda
Professor, Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design (INIAD), Toyo University, JapanSpeech Title: On the Expressive Power and Topological Structure of ReLU Neural Networks
Abstract: In this study, we investigate the expressive power of deep neural networks with ReLU activations in binary classification tasks, where the final readout is given by a linear hyperplane. Our focus is on the geometric and topological properties of the negative region induced in the input space. Using structural properties of the tope graph associated with hyperplane arrangements, we analyze the topology of the decision region at the output layer and reveal certain constraints on its structure. We then examine how this region is propagated backward through the layers of the network via the ReLU transformations. This viewpoint allows us to study how topological features evolve under layer-wise pullbacks. Based on this framework, we propose a conjectural principle describing the stability of topological properties of decision regions under such maps. This work establishes a connection between neural network expressivity and combinatorial topology.
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