Summary of Gaussian Mixture Vector Quantization with Aggregated Categorical Posterior, by Mingyuan Yan et al.
Gaussian Mixture Vector Quantization with Aggregated Categorical Posterior
by Mingyuan Yan, Jiawei Wu, Rushi Shah, Dianbo Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 paper generalizes the Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) method by enriching its probabilistic framework with a Gaussian mixture as the underlying generative model. The resulting approach, called GM-VQ, integrates the benefits of both discrete and continuous representations within a variational Bayesian framework. It leverages a codebook of latent means and adaptive variances to capture complex data distributions, avoiding training instability and improving codebook utilization. Additionally, the paper introduces the Aggregated Categorical Posterior Evidence Lower Bound (ALBO) optimization objective, which aligns variational distributions with the generative model. The authors demonstrate that GM-VQ improves codebook utilization and reduces information loss without relying on heuristics. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper takes a technique called vector quantization and makes it better for machine learning tasks. Vector quantization is like mapping a continuous space to a discrete one, which helps with things like tokenizing text or compressing data. The authors create a new version of this method that uses a special kind of mathematical framework to make it work more smoothly and accurately. They also introduce a new way to optimize the process, called ALBO, which helps the model learn better without relying on guesswork. The results show that this new approach is more effective and efficient than previous methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generative model » Machine learning » Optimization » Quantization » Variational autoencoder
