Amortised Inference in Structured Generative Models with Explaining Away

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05212v1
• Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:52:15 GMT
• Title: Amortised Inference in Structured Generative Models with Explaining Away
• Authors: Changmin Yu and Hugo Soulat and Neil Burgess and Maneesh Sahani
• Abstract summary: We extend the output of amortised variational inference to incorporate structured factors over multiple variables. We show that appropriately parameterised factors can be combined efficiently with variational message passing in elaborate graphical structures. We then fit the structured model to high-dimensional neural spiking time-series from the hippocampus of freely moving rodents.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: A key goal of unsupervised learning is to go beyond density estimation and sample generation to reveal the structure inherent within observed data. Such structure can be expressed in the pattern of interactions between explanatory latent variables captured through a probabilistic graphical model. Although the learning of structured graphical models has a long history, much recent work in unsupervised modelling has instead emphasised flexible deep-network-based generation, either transforming independent latent generators to model complex data or assuming that distinct observed variables are derived from different latent nodes. Here, we extend the output of amortised variational inference to incorporate structured factors over multiple variables, able to capture the observation-induced posterior dependence between latents that results from "explaining away" and thus allow complex observations to depend on multiple nodes of a structured graph. We show that appropriately parameterised factors can be combined efficiently with variational message passing in elaborate graphical structures. We instantiate the framework based on Gaussian Process Factor Analysis models, and empirically evaluate its improvement over existing methods on synthetic data with known generative processes. We then fit the structured model to high-dimensional neural spiking time-series from the hippocampus of freely moving rodents, demonstrating that the model identifies latent signals that correlate with behavioural covariates.

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