AVAE: Adversarial Variational Auto Encoder

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11551v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:29:56 GMT
• Title: AVAE: Adversarial Variational Auto Encoder
• Authors: Antoine Plumerault, Herv\'e Le Borgne, C\'eline Hudelot
• Abstract summary: We introduce a new framework that combines VAE and GAN in a novel and complementary way to produce an auto-encoding model. We evaluate our approach both qualitatively and quantitatively on five image datasets.
• Score: 2.1485350418225244
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Among the wide variety of image generative models, two models stand out: Variational Auto Encoders (VAE) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). GANs can produce realistic images, but they suffer from mode collapse and do not provide simple ways to get the latent representation of an image. On the other hand, VAEs do not have these problems, but they often generate images less realistic than GANs. In this article, we explain that this lack of realism is partially due to a common underestimation of the natural image manifold dimensionality. To solve this issue we introduce a new framework that combines VAE and GAN in a novel and complementary way to produce an auto-encoding model that keeps VAEs properties while generating images of GAN-quality. We evaluate our approach both qualitatively and quantitatively on five image datasets.

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