Title
Hierarchical Adversarially Learned Inference.
Abstract
We propose a novel hierarchical generative model with a simple Markovian structure and a corresponding inference model. Both the generative and inference model are trained using the adversarial learning paradigm. We demonstrate that the hierarchical structure supports the learning of progressively more abstract representations as well as providing semantically meaningful reconstructions with different levels of fidelity. Furthermore, we show that minimizing the Jensen-Shanon divergence between the generative and inference network is enough to minimize the reconstruction error. The resulting semantically meaningful hierarchical latent structure discovery is exemplified on the CelebA dataset. There, we show that the features learned by our model in an unsupervised way outperform the best handcrafted features. Furthermore, the extracted features remain competitive when compared to several recent deep supervised approaches on an attribute prediction task on CelebA. Finally, we leverage the modelu0027s inference network to achieve state-of-the-art performance on a semi-supervised variant of the MNIST digit classification task.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Machine Learning
Fidelity,MNIST database,Markov process,Inference,Reconstruction error,Artificial intelligence,Generative grammar,Machine learning,Mathematics,Generative model
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1802.01071
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
21
6