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Thu Jul 21 10:40 AM -- 10:45 AM (PDT) @ Hall F
Plug-In Inversion: Model-Agnostic Inversion for Vision with Data Augmentations
Amin Ghiasi · Hamid Kazemi · Steven Reich · Chen Zhu · Micah Goldblum · Tom Goldstein

Existing techniques for model inversion typically rely on hard-to-tune regularizers, such as total variation or feature regularization, which must be individually calibrated for each network in order to produce adequate images. In this work, we introduce Plug-In Inversion, which relies on a simple set of augmentations and does not require excessive hyper-parameter tuning. Under our proposed augmentation-based scheme, the same set of augmentation hyper-parameters can be used for inverting a wide range of image classification models, regardless of input dimensions or the architecture. We illustrate the practicality of our approach by inverting Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) trained on the ImageNet dataset, tasks which to the best of our knowledge have not been successfully accomplished by any previous works.