CNNs are Myopic

05/22/2022
by   Vamshi C. Madala, et al.
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We claim that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) learn to classify images using only small seemingly unrecognizable tiles. We show experimentally that CNNs trained only using such tiles can match or even surpass the performance of CNNs trained on full images. Conversely, CNNs trained on full images show similar predictions on small tiles. We also propose the first a priori theoretical model for convolutional data sets that seems to explain this behavior. This gives additional support to the long standing suspicion that CNNs do not need to understand the global structure of images to achieve state-of-the-art accuracies. Surprisingly it also suggests that over-fitting is not needed either.

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