Summary of Preventing Local Pitfalls in Vector Quantization Via Optimal Transport, by Borui Zhang et al.
Preventing Local Pitfalls in Vector Quantization via Optimal Transport
by Borui Zhang, Wenzhao Zheng, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Vector-quantized networks (VQNs) have achieved impressive results across various tasks, but their training process is often unstable due to the need for techniques like subtle initialization and model distillation. This study identifies the local minima issue as the primary cause of this instability and proposes a novel vector quantization method called OptVQ that integrates an optimal transport method instead of nearest neighbor search to achieve more globally informed assignments. The Sinkhorn algorithm is used to optimize the optimal transport problem, improving training stability and efficiency. A normalization strategy is also implemented to mitigate the influence of diverse data distributions on the Sinkhorn algorithm. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that OptVQ achieves 100% codebook utilization and surpasses current state-of-the-art VQNs in reconstruction quality. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Vector-quantized networks are a type of AI model that does well at certain tasks, but they can be tricky to train. This new method, called OptVQ, makes the training process more stable and efficient by using a different way to assign vectors. The researchers also found a way to make this assignment process work better with different types of data. They tested their method on image reconstruction tasks and found that it does a great job. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Distillation » Nearest neighbor » Quantization
