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Poster C18 in Poster Session C - Friday, August 9, 2024, 11:15 am – 1:15 pm, Johnson Ice Rink

Optimizing for Possible Feature Combinations in Discriminative Vision Models

Christopher Hamblin1 (), Talia Konkle1, George Alvarez1; 1Harvard University

In this work we leverage feature visualization to probe the bounds of feature combinations in the InceptionV1 object recognition model. While our technique also yields conventional/viewable feature visualizations, we demonstrate how such optimizations can reveal contingencies between feature pairs that are difficult to infer from their activations to natural images alone. We propose a data visualization motif that is ideal for quickly assessing the relations between arbitrary feature pairs.

Keywords: Neural Networks Mechanistic Interpretability Feature Visualization CNNs 

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