Discouraging posterior collapse in hierarchical Variational Autoencoders using context

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09976v2
• Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:32:22 GMT
• Title: Discouraging posterior collapse in hierarchical Variational Autoencoders using context
• Authors: Anna Kuzina and Jakub M. Tomczak
• Abstract summary: There is a consensus that the top-down hierarchical VAEs allow effective learning of deep latent structures and avoid problems like posterior collapse. Here, we show that this is not necessarily the case, and the problem of collapsing posteriors remains. We propose a deep hierarchical VAE with a context on top. Specifically, we use a Discrete Cosine Transform to obtain the last latent variable.
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• Abstract: Hierarchical Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are among the most popular likelihood-based generative models. There is a consensus that the top-down hierarchical VAEs allow effective learning of deep latent structures and avoid problems like posterior collapse. Here, we show that this is not necessarily the case, and the problem of collapsing posteriors remains. To discourage this issue, we propose a deep hierarchical VAE with a context on top. Specifically, we use a Discrete Cosine Transform to obtain the last latent variable. In a series of experiments, we observe that the proposed modification allows us to achieve better utilization of the latent space and does not harm the model's generative abilities.

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