Summary of Double Infogan For Contrastive Analysis, by Florence Carton et al.
Double InfoGAN for Contrastive Analysis
by Florence Carton, Robin Louiset, Pietro Gori
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 The paper proposes Double InfoGAN, a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based method for Contrastive Analysis (CA), which aims to discover what is common and distinctive between a target domain and a background one. The authors argue that current state-of-the-art CA methods, which are based on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), have limitations such as ignoring important constraints or not enforcing fundamental assumptions. This can lead to sub-optimal solutions where distinctive factors are mistaken for common ones or vice versa. Double InfoGAN combines the high-quality synthesis of GANs with the separation power of InfoGAN, making it a more effective method for CA than existing VAE-based methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to compare two types of images and figure out what makes them different. This is important in many fields, such as medicine. Right now, the best ways to do this use something called Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), but these have some problems. They don’t always work well because they ignore important rules or don’t follow basic principles. This can make it hard to tell what’s special about one type of image and what’s common between them. The new method, Double InfoGAN, combines the good qualities of two other techniques to get better results. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gan » Generative adversarial network
