Summary of Discriminative Estimation Of Total Variation Distance: a Fidelity Auditor For Generative Data, by Lan Tao et al.
Discriminative Estimation of Total Variation Distance: A Fidelity Auditor for Generative Data
by Lan Tao, Shirong Xu, Chi-Hua Wang, Namjoon Suh, Guang Cheng
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- 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 A novel approach for estimating the total variation (TV) distance between two distributions is proposed in this paper. The authors demonstrate that this distance can be used as an effective measure of generative data fidelity, particularly in the context of generative AI and synthetic data. To achieve this, they develop a discriminative method that quantifies the relationship between the Bayes risk in classifying two distributions and their TV distance. By reducing the estimation of total variation distance to that of the Bayes risk, the proposed approach provides a fast convergence rate for estimating the TV distance between two Gaussian distributions. The authors also show that the estimation accuracy of the TV distance is influenced by the separation of the two Gaussian distributions, with smaller errors achieved when the distributions are farther apart. This phenomenon is validated empirically through simulations and applied to rank the fidelity of synthetic image data using the MNIST dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper talks about making sure artificial data looks real. With more fake data being created, it’s important to check how good it is at imitating real data. The authors came up with a new way to measure this by looking at how well two different types of data can be told apart. They found that their method works really well and that the quality of the artificial data depends on how much it differs from real data. This means that if fake data looks very similar to real data, it’s likely to be good. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Synthetic data
