Convolutional Sparse Representations -- application to physiological signals and interpretability for Deep Learning

Overview & Synopsis

Convolutional representations extract recurrent patterns which lead to the discovery of local structures in a set of signals. They are well suited to analyze physiological signals which requires interpretable representations in order to understand the relevant information. Moreover, these representations can be linked to deep learning models, as a way to bring interpretability intheir internal representations. In this disserta tion, we describe recent advances on both computational and theoretical aspects of these models.First, we show that the Singular Spectrum Analysis can be used to compute convolutional representations. This representation is dense and we describe an automatized procedure to improve its interpretability. Also, we propose an asynchronous algorithm, called DICOD, based on greedy coordinate descent, to solve convolutional sparse coding for long signals. Our algorithm has super-linear acceleration.In a second part, we focus on the link between representations and neural networks. An extra training step for deep learning, called post-training, is introduced to boost the performances of the trained network by making sure the last layer is optimal. Then, we study the mechanisms which allow to accelerate sparse coding algorithms with neural networks. We show that it is linked to afactorization of the Gram matrix of the dictionary.Finally, we illustrate the relevance of convolutional representations for physiological signals. Convolutional dictionary learning is used to summarize human walk signals and Singular Spectrum Analysis is used to remove the gaze movement in young infant’s oculometric recordings.