Word
degeneracy
Phoneticsde·gen·er·a·cy
US/dɪˈdʒɛnɝəsi/
UK/dɪdʒˈɛnəɹəsi/
Definition
n. a condition where different internal parts or settings produce the exact same observable behavior or result.
n. the state of being degenerate; in neural systems and physics, the capacity of structurally distinct elements to perform identical functions or yield indistinguishable outputs.
Examples
“Permuting the order of hidden neurons causes parameter degeneracy without altering the network output.”
“Biological neural circuits exhibit functional degeneracy, allowing them to remain robust against individual neuron loss.”
“Overparameterized neural networks possess immense architectural degeneracy, creating vast sub-manifolds of equivalent global minimizers across the loss landscape.”
Examples
simple
“Permuting the order of hidden neurons causes parameter degeneracy without altering the network output.”
contextual
“Biological neural circuits exhibit functional degeneracy, allowing them to remain robust against individual neuron loss.”
complex
“Overparameterized neural networks possess immense architectural degeneracy, creating vast sub-manifolds of equivalent global minimizers across the loss landscape.”
Etymology
From Latin degeneratio ('loss of quality or departure from kind'), from degenerare ('to depart from ancestral characteristics'), from de- + genus ('race, kind, origin').
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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