Summary of Denoising Diffusion Variational Inference: Diffusion Models As Expressive Variational Posteriors, by Top Piriyakulkij et al.
Denoising Diffusion Variational Inference: Diffusion Models as Expressive Variational Posteriors
by Top Piriyakulkij, Yingheng Wang, Volodymyr Kuleshov
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research proposes denoising diffusion variational inference (DDVI), a black-box algorithm for latent variable models that leverages diffusion models as flexible approximate posteriors. The method introduces iterative refinement in latent space, which is trained using a novel regularized evidence lower bound (ELBO) inspired by the wake-sleep algorithm. DDVI outperforms alternative approaches based on normalizing flows or adversarial networks, and improves inference and learning in deep latent variable models across various benchmarks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary DDVI is a new way to do something with old machine learning ideas. It helps us understand complex data better by using special math tricks. The trick involves making a guess about the data, then refining that guess by looking at it again. This helps us learn more from what we see. The method is easy to use and works well on lots of different kinds of data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Inference * Latent space * Machine learning
