Summary of Mitigating Over-exploration in Latent Space Optimization Using Les, by Omer Ronen et al.
Mitigating over-exploration in latent space optimization using LES
by Omer Ronen, Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun, Richard Baraniuk, Randall Balestriero, Bin Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 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 proposes Latent Exploration Score (LES), a method to mitigate over-exploration in Latent Space Optimization (LSO) for solving discrete optimization problems. LSO uses continuous optimization within the latent space of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) but is prone to over-exploration, leading to unrealistic solutions. LES leverages the trained decoder’s approximation of the data distribution and can be used with any VAE decoder without additional training or architectural changes. The evaluation on five LSO benchmark tasks and twenty-two VAE models shows that LES improves solution quality while maintaining high objective values, outperforming existing methods in most cases. This paper highlights the potential for LES to identify out-of-distribution areas, ensure differentiability, and be computationally tractable. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research develops a way to make LSO better at finding good solutions without getting stuck in unrealistic areas. They create something called Latent Exploration Score (LES) that helps LSO avoid over-exploring the possible solutions. This means LES can give us more realistic answers when we need to solve hard problems. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Decoder » Latent space » Optimization » Variational autoencoder
