Improving VAE Generations of Multimodal Data Through Data-Dependent Conditional Priors
- One of the major shortcomings of variational autoencoders is the inability to produce generations from the individual modalities of data originating from mixture distributions. This is primarily due to the use of a simple isotropic Gaussian as the prior for the latent code in the ancestral sampling procedure for the data generations. We propose a novel formulation of variational autoencoders, conditional prior VAE (CP-VAE), which learns to differentiate between the individual mixture components and therefore allows for generations from the distributional data clusters. We assume a two-level generative process with a continuous (Gaussian) latent variable sampled conditionally on a discrete (categorical) latent component. The new variational objective naturally couples the learning of the posterior and prior conditionals, and the learning of the latent categories encoding the multimodality of the original data in an unsupervised manner. The data-dependent conditional priors are then used to sample the continuous latent code when generating new samples from the individual mixture components corresponding to the multimodal structure of the original data. Our experimental results illustrate the generative performance of our new model comparing to multiple baselines.
| Author: | Frantzeska Lavda, Magda Gregorová, Alexandros Kalousis |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA200226 |
| Parent Title (English): | ECAI 2020 - 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 29 August-8 September 2020, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 29 - September 8, 2020 - Including 10th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Artificial Intelligence (PAIS 2020) |
| Editor: | Giuseppe De Giacomo, Alejandro Catalá, Bistra Dilkina, Michela Milano, Senén Barro, Alberto Bugarı́n, Jérôme Lang |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of publication: | 2020 |
| Release Date: | 2024/01/22 |
| Volume: | 325 |
| Pages/Size: | 8 |
| First Page: | 1254 |
| Last Page: | 1261 |
