Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by milliams on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @06:37AM
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I'd argue that these are not fractals in the mathematical sense, but they do seem to be demonstrating chaos.
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Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by bob88jg on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @09:10AM
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This is what I Initially thought too but I am less certain now - I assumed Fractal implied self similarity (which this doesn't seem to have) but this is in fact not true - I think to actually say if its fractal or not someone needs to estimate its dimension using box counting or some, way beyond me, analytical method.
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by wang_li on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @10:10AM
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They should have definition at arbitrary scales. These images do not, they are built from a fixed sized matrix. Beyond a certain point you are between the data points.
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by bob88jg on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @12:29PM
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Same can be said for the madelbtot set or any other fractal - there is a physical bound on the precision of the values - you can in theory run a NN with arbitary precision floats...
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by wang_li on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @01:38PM
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But the image is based on the attributes of each node in the NN matrix. The Mandelbrot set can be calculated at any precision you desire and it keeps going. An NN is discrete and finite.
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
by bob88jg on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:07PM
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That's not what it shows at all - it shows how varying hyper parameters (which are floats and thus can be set at any arbitary precision) effects the speed at which convergence happens - so its some function F: R^n -> Z - it has literally nothing to do with the nodes in the neural network...