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VIB is Half Bayes

In discriminative settings such as regression and classification there a...
11/17/2020 ∙ by Alexander A. Alemi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Non-saturating GAN training as divergence minimization

Non-saturating generative adversarial network (GAN) training is widely u...
10/15/2020 ∙ by Matt Shannon, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Tasks, stability, architecture, and compute: Training more effective learned optimizers, and using them to train themselves

Much as replacing hand-designed features with learned functions has revo...
09/23/2020 ∙ by Luke Metz, et al. ∙ 12 ∙ share

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What makes for good views for contrastive learning

Contrastive learning between multiple views of the data has recently ach...
05/20/2020 ∙ by Yonglong Tian, et al. ∙ 16 ∙ share

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Using a thousand optimization tasks to learn hyperparameter search strategies

We present TaskSet, a dataset of tasks for use in training and evaluatin...
02/27/2020 ∙ by Luke Metz, et al. ∙ 71 ∙ share

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Regularized Autoencoders via Relaxed Injective Probability Flow

Invertible flow-based generative models are an effective method for lear...
02/20/2020 ∙ by Abhishek Kumar, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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Weakly-Supervised Disentanglement Without Compromises

Intelligent agents should be able to learn useful representations by obs...
02/07/2020 ∙ by Francesco Locatello, et al. ∙ 20 ∙ share

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On Implicit Regularization in β-VAEs

While the impact of variational inference (VI) on posterior inference in...
01/31/2020 ∙ by Abhishek Kumar, et al. ∙ 9 ∙ share

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Weakly Supervised Disentanglement with Guarantees

Learning disentangled representations that correspond to factors of vari...
10/22/2019 ∙ by Rui Shu, et al. ∙ 12 ∙ share

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On Predictive Information Sub-optimality of RNNs

Certain biological neurons demonstrate a remarkable capability to optima...
10/21/2019 ∙ by Zhe Dong, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Improving Robustness Without Sacrificing Accuracy with Patch Gaussian Augmentation

Deploying machine learning systems in the real world requires both high ...
06/06/2019 ∙ by Raphael Gontijo Lopes, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Discrete Flows: Invertible Generative Models of Discrete Data

While normalizing flows have led to significant advances in modeling hig...
05/24/2019 ∙ by Dustin Tran, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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On Variational Bounds of Mutual Information

Estimating and optimizing Mutual Information (MI) is core to many proble...
05/16/2019 ∙ by Ben Poole, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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Preventing Posterior Collapse with delta-VAEs

Due to the phenomenon of "posterior collapse," current latent variable g...
01/10/2019 ∙ by Ali Razavi, et al. ∙ 4 ∙ share

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An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Deep Latent-Variable Models

We present an information-theoretic framework for understanding trade-of...
11/01/2017 ∙ by Alexander A. Alemi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Continual Learning Through Synaptic Intelligence

While deep learning has led to remarkable advances across diverse applic...
03/13/2017 ∙ by Friedemann Zenke, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Survey of Expressivity in Deep Neural Networks

We survey results on neural network expressivity described in "On the Ex...
11/24/2016 ∙ by Maithra Raghu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Unrolled Generative Adversarial Networks

We introduce a method to stabilize Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs...
11/07/2016 ∙ by Luke Metz, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Categorical Reparameterization with Gumbel-Softmax

Categorical variables are a natural choice for representing discrete str...
11/03/2016 ∙ by Eric Jang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Exponential expressivity in deep neural networks through transient chaos

We combine Riemannian geometry with the mean field theory of high dimens...
06/16/2016 ∙ by Ben Poole, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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On the Expressive Power of Deep Neural Networks

We propose a new approach to the problem of neural network expressivity,...
06/16/2016 ∙ by Maithra Raghu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Adversarially Learned Inference

We introduce the adversarially learned inference (ALI) model, which join...
06/02/2016 ∙ by Vincent Dumoulin, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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The Fast Bilateral Solver

We present the bilateral solver, a novel algorithm for edge-aware smooth...
11/10/2015 ∙ by Jonathan T. Barron, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Analyzing noise in autoencoders and deep networks

Autoencoders have emerged as a useful framework for unsupervised learnin...
06/06/2014 ∙ by Ben Poole, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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VIB is Half Bayes

Non-saturating GAN training as divergence minimization

Tasks, stability, architecture, and compute: Training more effective learned optimizers, and using them to train themselves

What makes for good views for contrastive learning

Using a thousand optimization tasks to learn hyperparameter search strategies

Regularized Autoencoders via Relaxed Injective Probability Flow

Weakly-Supervised Disentanglement Without Compromises

On Implicit Regularization in β-VAEs

Weakly Supervised Disentanglement with Guarantees

On Predictive Information Sub-optimality of RNNs

Improving Robustness Without Sacrificing Accuracy with Patch Gaussian Augmentation

Discrete Flows: Invertible Generative Models of Discrete Data

On Variational Bounds of Mutual Information

Preventing Posterior Collapse with delta-VAEs

An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Deep Latent-Variable Models

Continual Learning Through Synaptic Intelligence

Survey of Expressivity in Deep Neural Networks

Unrolled Generative Adversarial Networks

Categorical Reparameterization with Gumbel-Softmax

Exponential expressivity in deep neural networks through transient chaos

On the Expressive Power of Deep Neural Networks

Adversarially Learned Inference

The Fast Bilateral Solver

Analyzing noise in autoencoders and deep networks