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On Unifying Deep Generative Models

06/02/2017
by   Zhiting Hu, et al.
Petuum, Inc.
Carnegie Mellon University
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Deep generative models have achieved impressive success in recent years. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), as powerful frameworks for deep generative model learning, have largely been considered as two distinct paradigms and received extensive independent study respectively. This paper establishes formal connections between deep generative modeling approaches through a new formulation of GANs and VAEs. We show that GANs and VAEs are essentially minimizing KL divergences of respective posterior and inference distributions with opposite directions, extending the two learning phases of classic wake-sleep algorithm, respectively. The unified view provides a powerful tool to analyze a diverse set of existing model variants, and enables to exchange ideas across research lines in a principled way. For example, we transfer the importance weighting method in VAE literatures for improved GAN learning, and enhance VAEs with an adversarial mechanism for leveraging generated samples. Quantitative experiments show generality and effectiveness of the imported extensions.

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