Evolutionary Visual Analysis of Deep Neural Networks

Recently, deep learning visualization gained a lot of attentions for understanding deep neural networks. However, there is a missing focus on the visualization of deep model training process. To bridge the gap, in this paper, we firstly define a discriminability metric to evaluate neuron evolution and a density metric to investigate output feature maps. Based on these metrics, a level-ofdetail visual analytics framework is proposed to locally and globally inspect the evolution of deep neural networks. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our system with two real world case studies.