Title
Bi-level Doubly Variational Learning for Energy-based Latent Variable Models
Abstract
Energy-based latent variable models (EBLVMs) are more expressive than conventional energy-based models. However, its potential on visual tasks are limited by its training process based on maximum likelihood estimate that requires sampling from two intractable distributions. In this paper, we propose Bi-level doubly variational learning (BiDVL), which is based on a new bi-level optimization framework and two tractable variational distributions to facilitate learning EBLVMs. Particularly, we lead a decoupled EBLVM consisting of a marginal energy-based distribution and a structural posterior to handle the difficulties when learning deep EBLVMs on images. By choosing a symmetric KL divergence in the lower level of our framework, a compact BiDVL for visual tasks can be obtained. Our model achieves impressive image generation performance over related works. It also demonstrates the significant capacity of testing image reconstruction and out-of-distribution detection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01791
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image and video synthesis and generation
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ge Kan100.34
Jinhu Lu24011.45
Tian Wang3376.13
Baochang Zhang4113093.76
Aichun Zhu5168.10
Lei Huang600.34
Guodong Guo72548144.00
Hichem Snoussi850962.19