Visualizations of Neural Nets

One challenge with training neural nets is figuring what, exactly, is going on in them. A company called Graphcore has one solution, which you can see above. They used machine learning to learn about their machine learning. It’s a bit like GameSpace, in that it’s a mapping of complex graph structures into visually-perceivable dimensions.

This isn’t the only visualization of neural nets: other approaches have been explored. But it’s quite pretty.

Of course, where things like this will eventually be really useful is when we can use them to interactively debug neural networks.

https://www.graphcore.ai/blog/what-does-machine-learning-look-like

http://www.wired.co.uk/gallery/machine-learning-graphcore-pictures-inside-ai