Empirical Evidence for Simply Connected Decision Regions in Image Classifiers
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This paper empirically investigates whether image classifier decision regions are simply connected by verifying if loops between images with the same label can be filled by label-preserving surfaces.
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Source: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.06380 We empirically investigate whether image-classifier decision regions appear simply connected at finite resolution.
Prior work has studied path-connectedness of decision regions. This paper asks a stronger topological question: given four natural images with the same predicted label, can the loop they form be filled by a label-preserving surface?
Our procedure recursively constructs and verifies a quad-mesh surface using grid sampling and local decision-boundary repair. Across several ImageNet classifiers, the experiments provide empirical evidence consistent with the hypothesis that decision regions are simply connected.
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