Exponential Tilting of Generative Models: Improving Sample Quality by Training and Sampling from Latent Energy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08100v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 02:58:43 GMT
• Title: Exponential Tilting of Generative Models: Improving Sample Quality by Training and Sampling from Latent Energy
• Authors: Zhisheng Xiao, Qing Yan, Yali Amit
• Abstract summary: Our method constructs an energy function on the latent variable space that yields an energy function on samples produced by the pre-trained generative model. We show that using our proposed method, we can greatly improve the sample quality of popular likelihood based generative models.
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• Abstract: In this paper, we present a general method that can improve the sample quality of pre-trained likelihood based generative models. Our method constructs an energy function on the latent variable space that yields an energy function on samples produced by the pre-trained generative model. The energy based model is efficiently trained by maximizing the data likelihood, and after training, new samples in the latent space are generated from the energy based model and passed through the generator to producing samples in observation space. We show that using our proposed method, we can greatly improve the sample quality of popular likelihood based generative models, such as normalizing flows and VAEs, with very little computational overhead.

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