You might be interested by colah's (Christopher Olah's) blog: https://colah.github.io/ https://colah.github.io/ Two articles in particular are good introductio

You might be interested by colah's (Christopher Olah's) blog: https://colah.github.io/ https://colah.github.io/ Two articles in particular are good introductions to looking at neural networks in terms of higher dimensional data lying on lower-dimesnional manifolds: Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology: https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/ https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/ Visualizing MNIST: An Exploration of Dimensionality Reduction: https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-10-Visualizing-MNIST/ https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-10-Visualizing-MNIST/