Title
Visual Genealogy of Deep Neural Networks
Abstract
A comprehensive and comprehensible summary of existing deep neural networks (DNNs) helps practitioners understand the behaviour and evolution of DNNs, offers insights for architecture optimization, and sheds light on the working mechanisms of DNNs. However, this summary is hard to obtain because of the complexity and diversity of DNN architectures. To address this issue, we develop DNN Genealogy, an interactive visualization tool, to offer a visual summary of representative DNNs and their evolutionary relationships. DNN Genealogy enables users to learn DNNs from multiple aspects, including architecture, performance, and evolutionary relationships. Central to this tool is a systematic analysis and visualization of 66 representative DNNs based on our analysis of 140 papers. A directed acyclic graph is used to illustrate the evolutionary relationships among these DNNs and highlight the representative DNNs. A focus + context visualization is developed to orient users during their exploration. A set of network glyphs is used in the graph to facilitate the understanding and comparing of DNNs in the context of the evolution. Case studies demonstrate that DNN Genealogy provides helpful guidance in understanding, applying, and optimizing DNNs. DNN Genealogy is extensible and will continue to be updated to reflect future advances in DNNs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TVCG.2019.2921323
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Visualization,Computer architecture,Tools,Neural networks,Interviews,Task analysis,Deep learning
Journal
26
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
1077-2626
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
52
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qianwen Wang1396.47
Jun Yuan224423.10
Shuxin Chen3105.02
Hang Su444847.57
Huamin Qu52033115.33
Shixia Liu6209582.41