Visualizing Examples of Deep Neural Networks at Scale

Visualizing Examples of Deep Neural Networks at Scale Litao Yan, Elena L. Glassman, Tianyi Zhang CHI ’21: The 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Session: Engineering Development Support Abstract Many programmers want to use deep learning due to its superior accuracy in many challenging domains. Yet our formative study with ten programmers indicated that, when constructing their own deep neural networks (DNNs), they often had a difficult time choosing appropriate model structures and hyperparameter values. This paper presents ExampleNet---a novel interactive visualization system for exploring common and uncommon design choices in a large collection of open-source DNN projects. ExampleNet provides a holistic view of the distribution over model structures and hyperparameter settings in the corpus of DNNs, so users can easily filter the corpus down to projects tackling similar tasks and compare design choices made by others. We evaluated ExampleNet in a within-subjects study with sixt