Dynamic Network Functional Comparison via Approximate-bisimulation

It is generally unknown how to formally determine whether different neural networks have a similar behaviour. This
question intimately relates to the problem of finding a suitable similarity measure to identify bounds on the input-output response distances of neural networks, which has several interesting theoretical and computational implications. For example, it can allow one to speed up the learning processes by restricting the network parameter space, or to test the robustness of a network with respect to parameter variation. In this paper we develop a procedure that allows for comparing neural structures among them. In particular, we consider dynamic networks composed of neural units, characterised by non-linear differential equations, described in terms of autonomous continuous dynamic systems. The comparison is established by importing and adapting from the formal verification setting the concept of ?-approximate bisimulations techniques for non-linear systems. We have positively tested the proposed approach over continuous time recurrent neural networks (CTRNNs).

Publication type: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Francesco Donnarumma
Aniello Murano
Roberto Prevete.
Publisher: 
Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe., Warszawa, Polonia
Source: 
Control and Cybernetics 44 (2015): 99–127.
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Francesco Donnarumma, Aniello Murano, Roberto Prevete./titolo:Dynamic Network Functional Comparison via Approximate-bisimulation/doi:/rivista:Control and Cybernetics/anno:2015/pagina_da:99/pagina_a:127/intervallo_pagine:99–127/v
Date: 
2015
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/367422
http://control.ibspan.waw.pl:3000/contents/export?filename=donnarumma-et-al.pdf
Language: 
Eng
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