Poster

Parameterized Rate-Distortion Stochastic Encoder

Quan Hoang · Trung Le · Dinh Phung

Keywords: [ Adversarial Examples ] [ Representation Learning ] [ Supervised Learning ]

[ Abstract ]
Tue 14 Jul 8 a.m. PDT — 8:45 a.m. PDT
Tue 14 Jul 8 p.m. PDT — 8:45 p.m. PDT

Abstract:

We propose a novel gradient-based tractable approach for the Blahut-Arimoto (BA) algorithm to compute the rate-distortion function where the BA algorithm is fully parameterized. This results in a rich and flexible framework to learn a new class of stochastic encoders, termed PArameterized RAte-DIstortion Stochastic Encoder (PARADISE). The framework can be applied to a wide range of settings from semi-supervised, multi-task to supervised and robust learning. We show that the training objective of PARADISE can be seen as a form of regularization that helps improve generalization. With an emphasis on robust learning we further develop a novel posterior matching objective to encourage smoothness on the loss function and show that PARADISE can significantly improve interpretability as well as robustness to adversarial attacks on the CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets. In particular, on the CIFAR-10 dataset, our model reduces standard and adversarial error rates in comparison to the state-of-the-art by 50% and 41%, respectively without the expensive computational cost of adversarial training.

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