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Diffusion bridges vector quantized variational autoencoders
Max Cohen · Guillaume QUISPE · Sylvain Le Corff · Charles Ollion · Eric Moulines

Tue Jul 19 02:25 PM -- 02:30 PM (PDT) @ Ballroom 1 & 2
in Deep Learning »

Vector Quantized-Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAE) are generative models based on discrete latent representations of the data, where inputs are mapped to a finite set of learned embeddings.To generate new samples, an autoregressive prior distribution over the discrete states must be trained separately. This prior is generally very complex and leads to slow generation. In this work, we propose a new model to train the prior and the encoder/decoder networks simultaneously. We build a diffusion bridge between a continuous coded vector and a non-informative prior distribution. The latent discrete states are then given as random functions of these continuous vectors. We show that our model is competitive with the autoregressive prior on the mini-Imagenet and CIFAR dataset and is efficient in both optimization and sampling. Our framework also extends the standard VQ-VAE and enables end-to-end training.

Keywords: DL: Generative Models and Autoencoders · PM: Monte Carlo and Sampling Methods · PM: Variational Inference

Author Information

Max Cohen (Télécom SudParis, Accenta)
Guillaume QUISPE (Polytechnique)
Sylvain Le Corff (Télécom SudParis)
Charles Ollion (Polytechnique, IPP)
Eric Moulines (Ecole Polytechnique)

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