Poster
Learning Generative Models across Incomparable Spaces
Charlotte Bunne · David Alvarez-Melis · Andreas Krause · Stefanie Jegelka

Wed Jun 12th 06:30 -- 09:00 PM @ Pacific Ballroom #173
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Generative Adversarial Networks have shown remarkable success in learning a distribution that faithfully recovers a reference distribution in its entirety. However, in some cases, we may want to only learn some aspects (e.g., cluster or manifold structure), while modifying others (e.g., style, orientation or dimension). In this work, we propose an approach to learn generative models across such incomparable spaces, and demonstrate how to steer the learned distribution towards target properties. A key component of our model is the Gromov-Wasserstein distance, a notion of discrepancy that compares distributions relationally rather than absolutely. While this framework subsumes current generative models in identically reproducing distributions, its inherent flexibility allows application to tasks in manifold learning, relational learning and cross-domain learning.

Keywords: Dimensionality Reduction · Generative Adversarial Networks · Networks and Relational Learning · Representation Learning

Author Information

Charlotte Bunne (ETH Zürich)
David Alvarez-Melis (MIT)
Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich)
Stefanie Jegelka (MIT)

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