Summary of Prior Learning in Introspective Vaes, by Ioannis Athanasiadis et al.
Prior Learning in Introspective VAEs
by Ioannis Athanasiadis, Shashi Nagarajan, Fredrik Lindsten, Michael Felsberg
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are a crucial framework for unsupervised learning and data generation. Recent advancements have focused on enhancing VAEs by incorporating adversarial objectives and prior learning mechanisms. This study explores the Soft-IntroVAE (S-IntroVAE), which aims to ensure realistic samples receive low likelihood assignments. By formulating the prior as a third player, this framework demonstrates effective prior learning, sharing a Nash Equilibrium with the vanilla S-IntroVAE. Additionally, theoretically motivated regularizations are developed for adaptive variance clipping and responsibility regularization to stabilize training and discourage inactive prior modes. Experimental results on 2D density estimation and image generation benchmarks (F-MNIST and CIFAR-10) demonstrate the benefits of prior learning in S-IntroVAE for representation and generation learning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a way to improve how computers learn from data without being told what’s right or wrong. It uses something called Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), which are like special kinds of computers that can make new images or sounds based on what they’ve learned. The researchers wanted to see if they could make the VAEs even better by giving them a “prior” – like a set of rules for what makes sense. They created something called Soft-IntroVAE (S-IntroVAE) and found that when it worked with the prior, it made better images and learned more about the data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Density estimation » Image generation » Likelihood » Regularization » Unsupervised
