Title
Single neuron-based neural networks are as efficient as dense deep neural networks in binary and multi-class recognition problems
Abstract
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed many principles about neural processing. In particular, many biological systems were found to reconfigure/recruit single neurons to generate multiple kinds of decisions. Such findings have the potential to advance our understanding of the design and optimization process of artificial neural networks. Previous work demonstrated that dense neural networks are needed to shape complex decision surfaces required for AI-level recognition tasks. We investigate the ability to model high dimensional recognition problems using single or several neurons networks that are relatively easier to train. By employing three datasets, we test the use of a population of single neuron networks in performing multi-class recognition tasks. Surprisingly, we find that sparse networks can be as efficient as dense networks in both binary and multi-class tasks. Moreover, single neuron networks demonstrate superior performance in binary classification scheme and competing results when combined for multi-class recognition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1117/12.2588610
BIG DATA III: LEARNING, ANALYTICS, AND APPLICATIONS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Neural Networks, Single Neuron Layers, Deep Learning, MNIST, CIFAR
Journal
11730
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0277-786X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yassin Khalifa100.68
Justin Hawks200.34
Ervin Sejdic314625.55