Summary of A Generative Model Of Symmetry Transformations, by James Urquhart Allingham et al.
A Generative Model of Symmetry Transformations
by James Urquhart Allingham, Bruno Kacper Mlodozeniec, Shreyas Padhy, Javier Antorán, David Krueger, Richard E. Turner, Eric Nalisnick, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Mar 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 The paper proposes a novel generative model that captures the approximate symmetries present in a dataset, leveraging group theoretic ideas to learn these symmetries directly from the data. The model can be seen as a generative process for data augmentation, which is particularly useful in situations where prior knowledge of the symmetries is not available. By combining this symmetry model with standard generative models, the authors demonstrate improved marginal test-log-likelihoods and data efficiency. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper develops a new way to understand how patterns are arranged in data. It creates a type of artificial intelligence that can learn these patterns directly from the data, without needing prior knowledge about them. This is useful because it allows the model to be more flexible and able to adapt to different types of data. The authors show that their approach works well for certain types of transformations, such as those that involve moving or changing colors. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Data augmentation * Generative model
