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Recent years have seen a convergence of two previously distinct approaches: representation learning from high dimensional data, and unsupervised generative modeling. In the field that formed at the intersection, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged to become well-established. VAEs are theoretically elegant but with the drawback that they tend to generate blurry samples when applied to natural images. GANs on the other hand produce better visual quality of sampled images, but come without an encoder, are harder to train and suffer from the mode-collapse problem when the trained model is unable to capture all the variability in the true data distribution. | Recent years have seen a convergence of two previously distinct approaches: representation learning from high dimensional data, and unsupervised generative modeling. In the field that formed at the intersection, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged to become well-established. VAEs are theoretically elegant but with the drawback that they tend to generate blurry samples when applied to natural images. GANs on the other hand produce better visual quality of sampled images, but come without an encoder, are harder to train and suffer from the mode-collapse problem when the trained model is unable to capture all the variability in the true data distribution. Thus there has been a push to come up with the best way to combine them together, but a principled unifying framework is yet to be discovered. | ||
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Revision as of 21:47, 11 March 2018
Introduction
Recent years have seen a convergence of two previously distinct approaches: representation learning from high dimensional data, and unsupervised generative modeling. In the field that formed at the intersection, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged to become well-established. VAEs are theoretically elegant but with the drawback that they tend to generate blurry samples when applied to natural images. GANs on the other hand produce better visual quality of sampled images, but come without an encoder, are harder to train and suffer from the mode-collapse problem when the trained model is unable to capture all the variability in the true data distribution. Thus there has been a push to come up with the best way to combine them together, but a principled unifying framework is yet to be discovered.