Paper explores how text generation quality and diversity metrics relate to distribution fitting.
problem Unclear relation between text generation quality and diversity metrics and distribution fitting.
method Theoretical approach to prove a linear combination of quality and diversity metrics can be a divergence metric.
result CR/NRR proposed as a better substitute for BLEU/Self-BLEU metrics.
The paper improves experimental design by weighting diversity metrics with quality, leading to more diverse and effective discoveries.
problem Existing experimental design techniques favor exploitation over exploration, leading to local optima and insufficient diversity.
method The paper extends Vendi scores to account for quality and applies them to various experimental design problems.
result Quality-weighted Vendi scores allow for better balance between quality and diversity, resulting in 70%-170% more effective discoveries.
Quality-Diversity algorithms explore multiple high-performing solutions in a search space.
problem Finding multiple high-performing solutions in complex optimization problems.
method Evolutionary computation approach focusing on behavioral space and holistic solution distribution.
result Quality-Diversity algorithms provide a comprehensive view of high-performing solutions in a search space.
How can we measure whether a natural language generation system produces both high quality and diverse outputs? Human evaluation captures quality but not diversity, as it does not catch models that simply plagiarize from the training set. On the other hand, statistical evaluation (i.e., perplexity) captures diversity b…
PaDGAN generates diverse, high-quality designs with improved performance.
problem Lack of diversity and performance improvement in generated designs.
method Integrates Determinantal Point Processes for diversity and quality, using GAN framework.
result PaDGAN generates higher quality designs with better diversity and without mode collapse.
New method improves neural architecture search by optimizing for both performance and diversity.
problem Traditional multi-objective NAS fails to address practical constraints and niches.
method Formulated as quality diversity optimization, introduces multifidelity optimizers.
result Quality diversity NAS outperforms multi-objective NAS in quality and efficiency.
The paper improves QD policy ensembles using distribution ratio estimators.
problem Training diverse and high-quality reinforcement learning agents.
method Using Stein variational gradient descent and distribution ratio estimators.
result The method generates diverse and high-quality reinforcement learning agents.
A new method finds diverse near-optimal portfolios using quality-diversity.
problem Optimizing financial portfolios with robustness to input parameter uncertainties.
method Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization using CVT-MAP-Elites algorithm.
result Diverse set of near-optimal portfolios identified.
CMA-ME combines CMA-ES and MAP-Elites for better quality and diversity in continuous domains.
problem Finding a diverse set of high-quality solutions in complex continuous domains.
method Combines CMA-ES self-adaptation with MAP-Elites archiving and mapping.
result CMA-ME outperforms MAP-Elites in both quality and diversity of solutions.
Proposes GM Score to evaluate GANs considering diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability.
problem Evaluation of GANs for sample quality and diversity.
method Integrates various factors including intra-class and inter-class diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability metrics.
result Demonstrates improved evaluation of GANs on MNIST dataset.
MAP-Elites generates diverse trading strategies for improved execution performance.
problem Optimizing trading execution schedules in volatile market conditions.
method Quality-diversity algorithm (MAP-Elites) generating a portfolio of specialized strategies.
result Diverse strategies achieve 8-10% performance improvements, validating quality-diversity methods.
VILD learns policies from mixed-quality demonstrations by modeling expert levels.
problem Challenges in learning from diverse-quality demonstrations.
method Explicitly models expert levels with a probabilistic graphical model and variational approach.
result VILD outperforms state-of-the-art methods in continuous-control benchmarks.
Text generation is an important Natural Language Processing task with various applications. Although several metrics have already been introduced to evaluate the text generation methods, each of them has its own shortcomings. The most widely used metrics such as BLEU only consider the quality of generated sentences and…
BOP-Elites uses Bayesian Optimisation for QD search, improving efficiency and insight.
problem Finding diverse high-performing points from an objective function.
method Bayesian Optimisation and Gaussian Processes to model quality and diversity.
result Significantly more sample efficient and better at identifying niche solutions.
This research introduces a new strategy in cluster ensemble selection by using Independency and Diversity metrics. In recent years, Diversity and Quality, which are two metrics in evaluation procedure, have been used for selecting basic clustering results in the cluster ensemble selection. Although quality can improve …
New model improves diversity in question generation over text.
problem Inadequate evaluation metrics for diverse questions.
method Proposed a variational encoder-decoder model and evaluation scheme.
result Improved diversity in generated questions without loss of quality.
Condorcet's Jury Theorem has been invoked for ensemble classifiers to indicate that the combination of many classifiers can have better predictive performance than a single classifier. Such a theoretical underpinning is unknown for consensus clustering. This article extends Condorcet's Jury Theorem to the mean partitio…
Meta-CoTGAN improves adversarial text generation by preventing mode collapse.
problem Mode collapse in adversarial text generation.
method Meta-Cooperative Training Paradigm with a language model.
result Meta-CoTGAN effectively slows down mode collapse and improves generation quality and diversity.
New method distills discrete diffusion models, maintaining quality and diversity.
problem Difficult to distill discrete diffusion models.
method Discrete Moment Matching Distillation (D-MMD)
result Maintains high quality and diversity in distilled models.
Adaptive contrastive search improves text generation quality and diversity.
problem Decoding high-quality text from language model outputs.
method Adaptive contrastive search incorporating uncertainty-guided degeneration penalty.
result Enhanced text generation quality and diversity across different models and datasets.
We introduce autoregressive implicit quantile networks (AIQN), a fundamentally different approach to generative modeling than those commonly used, that implicitly captures the distribution using quantile regression. AIQN is able to achieve superior perceptual quality and improvements in evaluation metrics, without incu…
Multiple clustering aims at exploring alternative clusterings to organize the data into meaningful groups from different perspectives. Existing multiple clustering algorithms are designed for single-view data. We assume that the individuality and commonality of multi-view data can be leveraged to generate high-quality …
Study examines how decoding algorithms affect fairness in language generation models.
problem Impact of decoding algorithms on fairness in open-ended language generation.
method Systematic analysis of top-p, top-k, and temperature decoding algorithms. result Decoding algorithms significantly impact fairness across demographic groups.
Fine-tunes diffusion models to generate diverse samples with high genuine rewards.
problem Reward collapse in finetuning diffusion models.
method Entropy-regularized control against pretrained diffusion models.
result Efficient generation of diverse samples with high genuine rewards.
CDSSL improves representation quality by integrating linear and nonlinear dependencies.
problem Scarcity of labeled data and neglect of nonlinear dependencies in SSL.
method CDSSL combines linear correlations and nonlinear dependencies using HSIC in RKHS.
result CDSSL enhances representation quality on diverse benchmarks.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistically looking synthetic images with remarkable success, yet their performance seems less impressive when the training set is highly diverse. In order to provide a better fit to the target data distribution when the dataset includes many different…
Waymo Open Dataset provides a large, diverse, and synchronized LiDAR and camera dataset for autonomous driving research.
problem Limited diversity and scale in existing self-driving datasets hinder real-world problem alignment.
method Developed a new large-scale, high-quality, diverse dataset with synchronized LiDAR and camera data.
result The dataset is 15x more diverse than the largest existing dataset based on a proposed diversity metric.
New metric evaluates generative models across domains, diagnosing fidelity, diversity, and generalization.
problem Evaluating generative models in diverse domains with limited metrics.
method Introduces a 3D evaluation metric (α-Precision, β-Recall, Authenticity) for domain-agnostic diagnostics. result Unified metric characterizes fidelity, diversity, and generalization, diagnosing model performance.
New framework predicts diverse, contextually plausible 3D human motions.
problem Predicting multiple plausible future 3D poses given observed poses.
method Developed a new variational framework that conditions latent variable on past observation to encourage relevant information.
result Our approach generates motions of higher quality and preserves contextual information.
New theory explains GAN's high quality but low diversity.
problem Lack of theoretical justification for non-saturating GAN training.
method Showed non-saturating GAN training approximately minimizes a specific f-divergence.
result Non-saturating GAN training minimizes a particular f-divergence.
We present a framework to understand GAN training as alternating density ratio estimation and approximate divergence minimization. This provides an interpretation for the mismatched GAN generator and discriminator objectives often used in practice, and explains the problem of poor sample diversity. We also derive a fam…
We propose a new equilibrium enforcing method paired with a loss derived from the Wasserstein distance for training auto-encoder based Generative Adversarial Networks. This method balances the generator and discriminator during training. Additionally, it provides a new approximate convergence measure, fast and stable t…
GANs mode collapse solved with Bures distance.
problem GANs mode collapse or mode dropping.
method Use Bures distance to match real and fake batch diversity in feature space.
result Diversity matching reduces mode collapse and improves sample quality.
New method optimizes Gaussian process allocation for BO.
problem Existing methods for inducing point allocation in BO hinder performance.
method Proposes a new allocation strategy using quality-diversity decomposition.
result Demonstrates improved BO performance through local high-fidelity modeling.
New model reduces sampling cost in diffusion models, making them faster and applicable to real-world applications.
problem Challenges in generating high-quality samples, mode coverage, and fast sampling in deep generative models.
method Proposes denoising diffusion GANs that model each denoising step using a multimodal conditional GAN to reduce sampling cost.
result Demonstrates 2000imes faster sampling on CIFAR-10 dataset while maintaining competitive sample quality and diversity. RNE tackles scalable recommendation for billion-scale scenarios.
problem Designing a scalable recommendation system for diverse and dynamic user interests.
method RNE uses a diversity- and dynamics-aware neighbor sampling method for scalable network embedding.
result RNE achieves high-quality and diverse results on a billion-scale user-item graph.
We prove Transformers can learn diverse Gröbner bases.
problem Training Transformers for Gröbner basis computation.
method Prove generality of dataset generation algorithm; propose extended algorithm.
result Datasets are sufficiently general for diverse Gröbner bases learning.
Proposes a meta-learning method for robust portfolio optimization.
problem Optimizing a robust portfolio ensemble with diverse sub-portfolios.
method Uses a deep generative model with convolutional, LSTM, and dense layers to generate diverse sub-portfolios.
result The ensemble portfolio is robust and generalizes well, balancing performance and diversity.
Generative models have proven to be an outstanding tool for representing high-dimensional probability distributions and generating realistic-looking images. An essential characteristic of generative models is their ability to produce multi-modal outputs. However, while training, they are often susceptible to mode colla…
To cope with the high level of ambiguity faced in domains such as Computer Vision or Natural Language processing, robust prediction methods often search for a diverse set of high-quality candidate solutions or proposals. In structured prediction problems, this becomes a daunting task, as the solution space (image label…
Proposes a method to generate diverse translations by conditioning on target domain.
problem NMT models lack diversity in translations, even with search algorithms.
method Condition the decoder on a latent variable representing target domain, generated by a target encoder.
result Generated diverse translations without affecting performance or training time.
There are many problems in machine learning and data mining which are equivalent to selecting a non-redundant, high "quality" set of objects. Recommender systems, feature selection, and data summarization are among many applications of this. In this paper, we consider this problem as an optimization problem that seeks …
Improved uncertainty estimation through diverse sampling in neural networks.
problem Enhancing uncertainty estimation for machine learning models.
method Data-driven correlations and determinantal point processes-based sampling for dropout layers.
result State-of-the-art results in uncertainty estimation for regression and classification tasks.
Generative Fractional Diffusion Models improve image diversity and quality.
problem Diffusion models struggle with diversity, mode-collapse, and slow convergence.
method Replaces light-tailed BM with fractional Brownian motion (fBM) and its Markov approximation (MA-fBM).
result GFDM achieves greater diversity and quality in image generation.
Presents STRIPE model for probabilistic forecasting of non-stationary time series.
problem Probabilistic forecasting of non-stationary time series.
method STRIPE model representing structured diversity based on shape and time features, with diversification mechanism using determinantal point processes (DPP).
result STRIPE significantly outperforms baseline methods for representing diversity while maintaining forecasting accuracy.
Diverse and accurate vision+language modeling is an important goal to retain creative freedom and maintain user engagement. However, adequately capturing the intricacies of diversity in language models is challenging. Recent works commonly resort to latent variable models augmented with more or less supervision from ob…
We propose a simple yet highly effective method that addresses the mode-collapse problem in the Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN). Although conditional distributions are multi-modal (i.e., having many modes) in practice, most cGAN approaches tend to learn an overly simplified distribution where an input…
OpenDataVal benchmarks data valuation algorithms for diverse datasets.
problem Improving model performance and mitigating biases in training datasets.
method Unified benchmark framework for data valuation algorithms.
result No single algorithm performs uniformly best across all tasks.