Metrics for deep generative models

N Chen, A Klushyn, R Kurle, X Jiang… - International …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
Neural samplers such as variational autoencoders (VAEs) or generative adversarial
networks (GANs) approximate distributions by transforming samples from a simple random …

Latent space oddity: on the curvature of deep generative models

G Arvanitidis, LK Hansen, S Hauberg - arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.11379, 2017 - arxiv.org
Deep generative models provide a systematic way to learn nonlinear data distributions,
through a set of latent variables and a nonlinear" generator" function that maps latent points …

A study on the evaluation of generative models

E Betzalel, C Penso, A Navon, E Fetaya - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10935, 2022 - arxiv.org
Implicit generative models, which do not return likelihood values, such as generative
adversarial networks and diffusion models, have become prevalent in recent years. While it …

Sampling generative networks

T White - arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.04468, 2016 - arxiv.org
We introduce several techniques for sampling and visualizing the latent spaces of
generative models. Replacing linear interpolation with spherical linear interpolation …

Learning generative models across incomparable spaces

C Bunne, D Alvarez-Melis, A Krause… - … on machine learning, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Generative Adversarial Networks have shown remarkable success in learning a
distribution that faithfully recovers a reference distribution in its entirety. However, in some …

Feature-based metrics for exploring the latent space of generative models

S Laine - 2018 - openreview.net
Several recent papers have treated the latent space of deep generative models, eg, GANs or
VAEs, as Riemannian manifolds. The argument is that operations such as interpolation are …

Distribution matching in variational inference

M Rosca, B Lakshminarayanan, S Mohamed - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
With the increasingly widespread deployment of generative models, there is a mounting
need for a deeper understanding of their behaviors and limitations. In this paper, we expose …

Perceptual generative autoencoders

Z Zhang, R Zhang, Z Li, Y Bengio… - … on Machine Learning, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Modern generative models are usually designed to match target distributions directly in the
data space, where the intrinsic dimension of data can be much lower than the ambient …

An introduction to deep generative modeling

L Ruthotto, E Haber - GAMM‐Mitteilungen, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Deep generative models (DGM) are neural networks with many hidden layers trained to
approximate complicated, high‐dimensional probability distributions using samples. When …

The geometry of deep generative image models and its applications

B Wang, CR Ponce - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.06006, 2021 - arxiv.org
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as a powerful unsupervised method
to model the statistical patterns of real-world data sets, such as natural images. These …