2021/10/04 by Nazmul Shahadat, Shahadat, Nazmul, Anthony S. Maida +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Engineering · #Cell Image Analysis Techniques #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Image Processing Techniques and Applications #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2110.01185
openalex publication_date 2021/10/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In recent years, hypercomplex-inspired neural networks (HCNNs) have been used to improve deep learning architectures due to their ability to enable channel-based weight sharing, treat colors as a single entity, and improve representational coherence within the layers. The work described herein studies the effect of replacing existing layers in an Axial Attention network with their representationally coherent variants to assess the effect on image classification. We experiment with the stem of the network, the bottleneck layers, and the fully connected backend, by replacing them with representationally coherent variants. These various modifications lead to novel architectures which all yield improved accuracy performance on the ImageNet300k classification dataset. Our baseline networks for comparison were the original real-valued ResNet, the original quaternion-valued ResNet, and the Axial Attention ResNet. Since improvement was observed regardless of which part of the network was modified, there is a promise that this technique may be generally useful in improving classification accuracy for a large class of networks.