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Visualization System for Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning

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Deep learning is actively used in a wide range of fields for scientific discovery. To effectively apply deep learning to a particular problem, it is important to select an appropriate network architecture and other hyper-parameters (at each layer). Evolving architectures and hyper-parameters using a genetic algorithm is one current approach to search the huge space of all possible configurations to find those more optimal for the problem. However, examining an evolutionary process and tuning the genetic algorithm are challenging, pushing most users to treat the process as a black box. To address this challenge, we propose a visualization system for evolutionary neural networks for deep learning. The key feature of our visualization system is to provide a visual analytics environment for evaluating a genetic algorithm in order to improve the underlying operations to reduce time to find good solutions. Our system is able to not only visualize how a genetic algorithm traverses its search space but also allows users to examine evolving networks in-depth to get insights to improve performance through interactive visualization components.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1606803
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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