Summary of Variational Potential Flow: a Novel Probabilistic Framework For Energy-based Generative Modelling, by Junn Yong Loo et al.
Variational Potential Flow: A Novel Probabilistic Framework for Energy-Based Generative Modelling
by Junn Yong Loo, Michelle Adeline, Arghya Pal, Vishnu Monn Baskaran, Chee-Ming Ting, Raphael C.-W. Phan
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel energy-based generative framework called Variational Potential Flow (VAPO), which learns to model data likelihood without relying on implicit MCMC sampling or complementary latent models. The VAPO framework optimizes an energy loss function that minimizes the Kullback-Leibler divergence between prior density evolution and data likelihood homotopy. Images can be generated by initializing samples from a Gaussian prior and solving an ODE governing the potential flow. Experimental results show competitive FID scores for unconditional image generation on CIFAR-10 and CelebA datasets, demonstrating the effectiveness of VAPO. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to generate images using energy-based models. It’s called Variational Potential Flow (VAPO). Traditional methods were hard to train because they needed something called MCMC sampling. But this new method doesn’t need that, and it works well on image datasets like CIFAR-10 and CelebA. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Image generation » Likelihood » Loss function
