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48 results for Latent Reconstruction (LR) loss

New method controls posterior collapse in VAEs without network architecture constraints.

problem Posterior collapse in VAEs reduces diversity of generated samples.
method Introduces Latent Reconstruction (LR) loss to control posterior collapse.
result Controls posterior collapse on various datasets without architectural constraints.

3BASiL-TM decomposes LLMs into sparse and low-rank matrices for efficient compression.

problem Efficiently compressing large language models without significant performance loss.
method 3-Block ADMM method and transformer-matching refinement step for sparse plus low-rank decomposition.
result 3BASiL-TM reduces perplexity gap by over 30% and speeds up compression by 2.5x.

The paper analyzes a private likelihood-ratio test for frequency tables under differential privacy constraints.

problem Achieving privacy in statistical data analysis while maintaining statistical utility.
method A rigorous analysis of a private likelihood-ratio (LR) test for goodness-of-fit in frequency tables, considering (ε,δ)(\varepsilon,δ)-differential privacy.
result Characterization of the trade-off between differential privacy parameters (ε,δ)(\varepsilon,δ) and statistical power of the private LR test.

Label smoothing improves model robustness against misspecification.

problem Improving model robustness against model misspecification.
method Introducing modified label smoothing (MLSLR) that maintains consistent probability estimation while modifying the loss function.
result MLSLR exhibits higher robustness against model misspecification than conventional label smoothing.

GCVAE improves disentanglement in VAEs while balancing reconstruction error.

problem Improving disentanglement in VAEs while maintaining low reconstruction error.
method Introduces three controllable Lagrangian hyperparameters to optimize reconstruction and KL divergence loss.
result GCVAE outperforms state-of-the-art models in disentanglement while balancing reconstruction.

We propose a novel autoencoding model called Pairwise Augmented GANs. We train a generator and an encoder jointly and in an adversarial manner. The generator network learns to sample realistic objects. In turn, the encoder network at the same time is trained to map the true data distribution to the prior in latent spac…

2018-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a novel approach for preserving topological structures of the input space in latent representations of autoencoders. Using persistent homology, a technique from topological data analysis, we calculate topological signatures of both the input and latent space to derive a topological loss term. Under weak theo…

2019-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

SentenceMIM learns rich latent representations for variable-length language data.

problem Challenges in learning VAEs for variable-length language data, especially posterior collapse.
method Probabilistic auto-encoder trained with Mutual Information Machine (MIM) learning.
result SentenceMIM learns informative latent representations with high mutual information.

We find optimal learning rate schedules for a random feature model.

problem Choosing optimal learning rates for deep learning models.
method We analyze a powerlaw random feature model trained with SGD, considering optimal schedules as numerical and analytical problems.
result We discover two regimes: easy and hard phases, with different optimal learning rate schedules.

Boosts neural network performance by improving weight separability.

problem Improving the separability of weight vectors in neural networks.
method Proposes a new evaluation metric and feed-backward reconstruction loss to encourage weight separability.
result Improves visual recognition performance across various tasks.

VAE struggles with distribution class sharpness, which can be learned dynamically.

problem VAE struggles with distribution class sharpness, leading to blurry reconstructions.
method Established that VAE fails if distribution class sharpness does not match data scale. Suggested learning distribution sharpness dynamically.
result Dynamic adjustment of distribution sharpness improves VAE performance, escaping local optima.

Paper finds sharpness differences in transformer blocks accelerating LLM training.

problem Understanding and accelerating large language model pre-training.
method Uncovering sharpness disparity across transformer blocks and proposing Blockwise Learning Rate.
result Blockwise Learning Rate strategy accelerates LLM pre-training with lower loss and speedup.

VED framework learns low-dimensional latent representations of physical systems.

problem Learning latent representations of complex physical systems.
method Variational Encoder-Decoder (VED) framework with KL divergence and covariance regularization.
result VED achieves lower-dimensional latent representations with improved feature disentanglement.

An LR-structure on a Lie algebra is a bilinear product, satisfying certain commutativity relations, and which is compatible with the Lie product. LR-structures arise in the study of simply transitive affine actions on Lie groups. In particular one is interested in the question which Lie algebras admit a complete LR-str…

2009-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for valid prediction sets in high-dimensional covariate shifts.

problem Valid prediction sets in high-dimensional covariate shifts.
method Likelihood-ratio regularized quantile regression (LR-QR) algorithm.
result LR-QR constructs valid prediction sets with desired coverage in target domain.

We propose a new family of optimization criteria for variational auto-encoding models, generalizing the standard evidence lower bound. We provide conditions under which they recover the data distribution and learn latent features, and formally show that common issues such as blurry samples and uninformative latent feat…

2017-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

State of the art deep generative networks are capable of producing images with such incredible realism that they can be suspected of memorizing training images. It is why it is not uncommon to include visualizations of training set nearest neighbors, to suggest generated images are not simply memorized. We demonstrate …

2019-01-09abs ↗pdf ↗

As advances in signature recognition have reached a new plateau of performance at around 2% error rate, it is interesting to investigate alternative approaches. The approach detailed in this paper looks at using Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) to learn a latent space representation of genuine signatures. This is then …

2019-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

EnVAE uses energy score for likelihood-free VAEs, improving image reconstructions.

problem Likelihood misspecification in VAEs leads to blurry reconstructions and poor data fidelity.
method Deterministic decoder, energy score as reconstruction loss, fast variant for efficiency.
result EnVAE achieves superior reconstruction and generation quality compared to likelihood-based baselines.

The variational autoencoder (VAE) framework is a popular option for training unsupervised generative models, featuring ease of training and latent representation of data. The objective function of VAE does not guarantee to achieve the latter, however, and failure to do so leads to a frequent failure mode called posteri…

2019-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

DCAE learns compact latent representations for one-class novelty detection.

problem Learning compact latent representations for one-class novelty detection.
method DCAE learns compact and collapse-free latent representations through internal discriminative layers of GANs, reconstructing in-class data finely and exclusively.
result DCAE achieves state-of-the-art performance on novelty and adversarial example detection.

Large learning rates lead to optimal generalization if chosen carefully.

problem Understanding the optimal range of large learning rates for neural network training.
method Empirical study focusing on two questions: optimal initial LR range and differences between models trained with different LRs.
result Optimal initial learning rates slightly above the convergence threshold lead to optimal results after fine-tuning with a small LR or weight averaging.

Proposes a conservative LR estimator for infrequent data near a frequency threshold.

problem Overestimation of likelihood ratios for infrequent data near a frequency threshold.
method Conservative likelihood ratio estimator for frequencies slightly above a threshold.
result Improves prediction accuracy in named entity context prediction.

ADEC addresses feature randomness and drift in autoencoder-based clustering.

problem Clustering autoencoders learn unreliable pseudo-labels, distorting latent space and feature randomness.
method Adversarial training to balance reconstruction loss and clustering objective.
result ADEC outperforms state-of-the-art autoencoder-based clustering methods.

Domain adaptation refers to the process of learning prediction models in a target domain by making use of data from a source domain. Many classic methods solve the domain adaptation problem by establishing a common latent space, which may cause the loss of many important properties across both domains. In this manuscri…

2018-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

LMMVAE improves VAE for correlated data by separating latent variables into fixed and random parts.

problem Correlated data in tabular and image datasets.
method Integrates random effects into VAE architecture, separating latent variables into fixed and random parts.
result Significant improvement in reconstruction error and likelihood loss on unseen data.

A trade-off exists between reconstruction quality and the prior regularisation in the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) loss that Variational Autoencoder (VAE) models use for learning. There are few satisfactory approaches to deal with a balance between the prior and reconstruction objective, with most methods dealing with t…

2019-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

This work uses action equivariance to learn structured latent spaces for reinforcement learning.

problem Learning structured latent spaces for reinforcement learning.
method Introduced a contrastive loss function to enforce action equivariance on learned representations.
result Optimal policies in the abstract MDP can be successfully lifted to the original MDP.

We solve a high-dimensional model where nonlinear autoencoders detect hidden structure missed by PCA.

problem Hidden structure in high-dimensional data not detected by PCA.
method Tractable spiked model with two latent factors, one visible and one uncorrelated.
result Nonlinear autoencoders can extract hidden structure missed by PCA, even if reconstruction loss is higher.

In this work, a deep learning-based method for log-likelihood ratio (LLR) lossy compression and quantization is proposed, with emphasis on a single-input single-output uncorrelated fading communication setting. A deep autoencoder network is trained to compress, quantize and reconstruct the bit log-likelihood ratios cor…

2019-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years Variation Autoencoders have become one of the most popular unsupervised learning of complicated distributions.Variational Autoencoder (VAE) provides more efficient reconstructive performance over a traditional autoencoder. Variational auto enocders make better approximaiton than MCMC. The VAE defines a …

2017-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗