Neighbor Embedding Variational Autoencoder

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11349v1
• Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:49:12 GMT
• Title: Neighbor Embedding Variational Autoencoder
• Authors: Renfei Tu, Yang Liu, Yongzeng Xue, Cheng Wang and Maozu Guo
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel model, neighbor embedding VAE(NE-VAE), which explicitly constraints the encoder to encode inputs close in the input space to be close in the latent space. In our experiments, NE-VAE can produce qualitatively different latent representations with majority of the latent dimensions remained active.
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• Abstract: Being one of the most popular generative framework, variational autoencoders(VAE) are known to suffer from a phenomenon termed posterior collapse, i.e. the latent variational distributions collapse to the prior, especially when a strong decoder network is used. In this work, we analyze the latent representation of collapsed VAEs, and proposed a novel model, neighbor embedding VAE(NE-VAE), which explicitly constraints the encoder to encode inputs close in the input space to be close in the latent space. We observed that for VAE variants that report similar ELBO, KL divergence or even mutual information scores may still behave quite differently in the latent organization. In our experiments, NE-VAE can produce qualitatively different latent representations with majority of the latent dimensions remained active, which may benefit downstream latent space optimization tasks. NE-VAE can prevent posterior collapse to a much greater extent than it's predecessors, and can be easily plugged into any autoencoder framework, without introducing addition model components and complex training routines.

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